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.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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You better have great practices.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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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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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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