The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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” 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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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