I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The world is run by C students
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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