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.’
AL MCGUIREA 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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