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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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 only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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