I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREThe world is run by C students
AL MCGUIREDon’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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 MCGUIREDon’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
AL MCGUIREEvery obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
AL MCGUIREKeep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREI don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
AL MCGUIREMost people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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