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.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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The world is run by C students
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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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