The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
AL MCGUIREI come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Make your life exciting.
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