I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
AL MCGUIREEliminate 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.
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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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