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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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