You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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” 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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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