Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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You better have great practices.
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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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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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