I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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