They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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You better have great practices.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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