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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.
Al McGuire
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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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More quotes by Al McGuire
It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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.
Al McGuire
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.
Al McGuire
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
Al McGuire
If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
Al McGuire
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
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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
Al McGuire
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
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.
Al McGuire
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
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
Al McGuire
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
Al McGuire
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
Al McGuire
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Al McGuire
