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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Make your life exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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 believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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You better have great practices.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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