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.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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The world is run by C students
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