If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Make your life exciting.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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