Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You better have great practices.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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 believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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