I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Make your life 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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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 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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The world is run by C students
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