List of Al McGuire Quotes

You Better Have Great Practices.

If You're Straight With Your Players, They'll Be Straight With You.

I Want My Team To Have My Personality: Surly, Obnoxious, And Arrogant.

I Don't Discuss Basketball. I Dictate Basketball. I'm Not Interested In Philosophy Classes.

When I'm Losing, They Call Me Nuts. When I'm Winning, They Call Me Eccentric.

Butch, You Come From Dewitt Clinton. There Are Five Thousand Brothers In That School. 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.

Can't Win Without Talent, You Know.

The People Who Know Basketball, Their Elevators Don't Go To The Top.

Winning Is Only Important In War And Surgery.

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.

All Love Affairs End. Eventually The Girl Is Gonna Put Curlers In Her Hair.

God Didn't Miss Any Of Us.