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 MCGUIREI 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.’
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The world is run by C students
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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