When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Make your life exciting.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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