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.
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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You better have great practices.
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The world is run by C students
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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 believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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