Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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