Al McGuire Quotes About Basketball
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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You better have great practices.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting - 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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. 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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