I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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