Al McGuire Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

• 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.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Moon, Play

• Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Guy, Other Guys

• 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.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Education, College

• The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Freshman, Sophomore

• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Night, Saturday

• The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Beautiful, Next

• If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Dirty, Ankles

• Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Life Is

• It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Profession

• When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Fighting, Guy

• My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, House

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

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Team, Personality

• I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Believe, Past

• Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Hurt, Long

• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

• You better have great practices.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

• I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Life Is, Moments

• I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Philosophy, Class

• We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Stars, Graves

• 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.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Player, Students

• If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Player, Ifs

• If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

• Can't win without talent, you know.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Talent

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