You measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The world is run by C students
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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