When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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