On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The world is run by C students
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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