When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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