Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The world is run by C students
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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