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.
AL MCGUIREWhen I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep 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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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 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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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 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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