You measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIREIf winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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 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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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