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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.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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 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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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