You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREThat’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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You better have great practices.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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