When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREYou’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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You better have great practices.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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