Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
-
-
That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
AL MCGUIRE -
My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIRE -
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
AL MCGUIRE -
I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIRE -
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIRE -
You better have great practices.
AL MCGUIRE -
Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIRE -
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIRE -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
AL MCGUIRE -
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIRE -
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIRE -
When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIRE -
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIRE