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.
AL MCGUIREIf winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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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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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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