Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREI don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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The world is run by C students
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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 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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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