Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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