My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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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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