The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREIf the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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