My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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 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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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 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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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