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.
AL MCGUIREIf winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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