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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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