On how to make the game more exciting.
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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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