Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
AL MCGUIREMake your life exciting.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
AL MCGUIREI let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
AL MCGUIREI believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
AL MCGUIREI come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREI don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
AL MCGUIREKeep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREI 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.’
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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