I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREI don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 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 gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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