Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
AL MCGUIREThat’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Make your life exciting.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I’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.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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