It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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The world is run by C students
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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You’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.
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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 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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