Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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A 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.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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