So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You better have great practices.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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