I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Make your life exciting.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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