Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREDon’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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 think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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 only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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