Live in the moment that you are in.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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.
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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 discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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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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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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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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