When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREI tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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