You measure a player from the head up.
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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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The world is run by C students
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Make your life exciting.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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