On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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