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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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You better have great practices.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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