Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIREWhen a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
AL MCGUIREI 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 MCGUIREIt’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREI don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
AL MCGUIREMost people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREThe next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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