So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIREEvery obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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