It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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You better have great practices.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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The world is run by C students
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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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” 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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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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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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