When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREDean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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The world is run by C students
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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