My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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