Quote

The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

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
People
Elevators
Basketball

More quotes by Al McGuire

Image
They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
Al McGuire
Image
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
Al McGuire
Image
Can't win without talent, you know.
Al McGuire
Image
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire
Image
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
Al McGuire
Image
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. 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.'
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
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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
Image
The world is run by C students
Al McGuire
Image
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, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
Al McGuire
Image
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
Al McGuire
Image
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Al McGuire
Image
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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
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