Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
AL MCGUIREDon’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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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 was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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