It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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