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.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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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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The world is run by C students
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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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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