When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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