I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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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 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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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