Al McGuire Quotes

A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

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.

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.

My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.

You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.

Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

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.

It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.