When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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