There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
AL MCGUIREYou’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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You better have great practices.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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