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.
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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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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The world is run by C students
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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 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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You better have great practices.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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