So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIREI had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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