I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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