On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREYou better have great practices.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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