I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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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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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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