When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREWhen I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThe next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
AL MCGUIREA 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.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
AL MCGUIREI 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.’
AL MCGUIREKeep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
AL MCGUIREDon’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREI come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREWinning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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