You measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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 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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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