Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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