If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIREWhen I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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