I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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I 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.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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