I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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