You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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 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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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You better have great practices.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The world is run by C students
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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