It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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