That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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