I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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 believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt 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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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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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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