The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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 let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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