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.
AL MCGUIREI’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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The world is run by C students
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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You better have great practices.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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