You measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIREThat’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
AL MCGUIREEliminate 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.
AL MCGUIREI 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 MCGUIREIt bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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