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.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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You better have great practices.
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The world is run by C students
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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