If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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