My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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