I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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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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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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