I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The world is run by C students
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