Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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 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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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.’
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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