The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREThat’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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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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