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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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