If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREThe only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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