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.
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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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’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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You better have great practices.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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