They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREThe nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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” 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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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