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.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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