I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIREI let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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