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.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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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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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go 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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