I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIREThe nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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