Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
AL MCGUIREI don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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