The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Make your life exciting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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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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