I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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