You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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