Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
AL MCGUIREEvery obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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 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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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’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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