Al McGuire Quotes

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.

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

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

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

You measure a player from the head up.

God didn't miss any of us.

You can love someone without wanting to be with them. Just like you can want to be with someone before you love them.

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

Ugh! Why can't Hell stay where it's at? Why does it always have to break loose?

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

I had died and woken up in High School Musical

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

Crazy gets all the knives.

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

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

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

Live in the moment that you are in.

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.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

Can't win without talent, you know.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.

The only woman I'd ever wanna marry just broke my heart.

Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.

I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.

When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.