On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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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.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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