The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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