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.
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREYou’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.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
AL MCGUIREGod didn’t miss any of us.
AL MCGUIREA 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.
AL MCGUIREIt’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREWinning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREMake your life exciting.
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