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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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You better have great practices.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Make your life exciting.
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The world is run by C students
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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” 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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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