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 MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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