Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIREWinning is only important in war and surgery.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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