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 MCGUIREHelp one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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