You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
AL MCGUIREI let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I 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.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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The world is run by C students
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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