Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThat’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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 gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The world is run by C students
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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