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.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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