Make your life exciting.
AL MCGUIREI believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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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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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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