On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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