You measure a player from the head up.
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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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