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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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