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.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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