So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIRERemember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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