We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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