Quote

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

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
Call
Havens
Money
Haven
Used
Number
Difference
Numbers
Security
Eccentric
Changed
Nuts
Differences
Boxes

More quotes by Al McGuire

Image
Can't win without talent, you know.
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
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Al McGuire
Image
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
Image
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
Al McGuire
Image
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
Al McGuire
Image
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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
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
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
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
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Al McGuire
Image
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
Al McGuire
Image
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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
The world is run by C students
Al McGuire
Image
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
Al McGuire
Image
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire