If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You better have great practices.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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