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 MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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