I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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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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You better have great practices.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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