Al McGuire Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

• 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

  Basketball, Moon, Play

• Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Guy, Other Guys

• 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

  Basketball, Education, College

• The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Freshman, Sophomore

• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Night, Saturday

• The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Beautiful, Next

• 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

  Basketball, Kids, House

• If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Dirty, Ankles

• Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Life Is

• It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Profession

• When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Fighting, Guy

• A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Team, Personality

• 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

  Basketball, Believe, Past

• Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Hurt, Long

• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

• You better have great practices.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

• I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, New York, Fall

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

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, People, Elevators

• 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

  Basketball, Brother, Nice

• I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Boss, Trying

• All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Girl, Hair

• I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Oxford, Common Sense

• When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Nuts

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