Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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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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