Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You better have great practices.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Make your life exciting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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