When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I 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.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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The world is run by C students
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