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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it. — 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
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
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
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes. — Al McGuire
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
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. — Al McGuire
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere. — Al McGuire
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 let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss. — Al McGuire
God didn't miss any of us. — 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
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
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
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top. — Al McGuire
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores. — Al McGuire
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. — Al McGuire
Winning is only important in war and surgery. — Al McGuire
I think the world is run by 'C' students. — 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
Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him. — Al McGuire
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. — Al McGuire
You measure a player from the head up. — 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
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good. — Al McGuire
You better have great practices. — Al McGuire