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 MCGUIREIt bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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I’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.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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