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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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