It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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You better have great practices.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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