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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
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
Al McGuire
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
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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.
Al McGuire
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
Al McGuire
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
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
Al McGuire
If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
Al McGuire
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
Al McGuire
Winning is only important in war and surgery.
Al McGuire
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
Live in the moment that you are in.
Al McGuire
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
Al McGuire
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
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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.
Al McGuire
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