We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREIf winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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The world is run by C students
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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