I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREI 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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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 discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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