We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Make your life exciting.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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You better have great practices.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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