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.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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