If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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 better have great practices.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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