When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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 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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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 gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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