Al McGuire Quotes

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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.

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

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.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

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.

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

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

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

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

The world is run by C students

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

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

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

I'm going to kiss you now, and I don't know if I'll ever stop.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

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

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

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