” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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