I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIRERemember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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