I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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 winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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