Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I 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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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