Quote

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

Al McGuire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Queens
New York
Keep
Important
Would
Score
Weren
Basketball
Nobody
Winning

More quotes by Al McGuire

Image
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.
Al McGuire
Image
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
Al McGuire
Image
You measure a player from the head up.
Al McGuire
Image
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.
Al McGuire
Image
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
Al McGuire
Image
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
Al McGuire
Image
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Al McGuire
Image
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
Al McGuire
Image
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
Image
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Al McGuire
Image
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
Al McGuire
Image
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire
Image
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
Al McGuire
Image
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire
Image
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying Shhh and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
Al McGuire
Image
Winning is only important in war and surgery.
Al McGuire
Image
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.
Al McGuire
Image
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.
Al McGuire
Image
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Al McGuire
Image
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
Al McGuire