You better have great practices.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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The world is run by C students
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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