When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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