Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThe nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You better have great practices.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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The world is run by C students
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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