The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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The world is run by C students
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You better have great practices.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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