The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You better have great practices.
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