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.
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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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The world is run by C students
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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