I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIREThat’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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