I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIREWhen I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The world is run by C students
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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 know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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