Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIREYou’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Make your life exciting.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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