If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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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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