Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREThe next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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The world is run by C students
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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