A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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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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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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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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