I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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You better have great practices.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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 you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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