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.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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