It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
AL MCGUIREI had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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Make your life exciting.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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