Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREWinning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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