On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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 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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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