If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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’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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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