I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Make your life exciting.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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