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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Quotable Al McGuire
"I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting."
"I never saw a ballplayer play in high school that I recruited, and I only recruited blue-plate specials."
"I like SRO. You need charisma. There should be electricity. When I walk into the arena, the first thing I do is look at the four corner seats. If those are sold, I've done my job."
"Coaching is not the ultimate. I never liked coaching. There's got to be more to life than hangin' up jock straps."
"I never really learned how to spell, and this is genuine. And so I guess I've always played with words, related words."
"I was the Houdini, who did the disappearing act. I know that 85 percent of me is buffalo chips, and the other 15 percent is rare talent. I'd say in that 15 percent, in the mental toughness, the media, keeping an eye on the elephant, not the mice, and extending the life of the extinct kiwi bird, which is nocturnal."
"I don't really know what it is not to be a celebrity. I like to have smoke rings blown at me."
"All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair."
"I've always been the bridesmaid. More like a lunch pail, tin-hat type of person. I never thought I'd really win. I'm a positive thinker, but I always thought I'd come in second."
"My role on the Knickerbockers was to go in and disrupt the opposition, to throw off their rhythm, change the game. They called me a scrambler, and that's where I got the idea for 'scrambled eggs' at Marquette, a whole unit that would go in to change the rhythm of a game."
"I stayed in the league (NBA) three years by diving over press tables and starting fights."
"The Ivy League is really the utopia of sports. They keep sports in perspective."
"I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense."
"You don't kiss the cheerleaders and shake the hands of the parents until the game is over."
"If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good."
"You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders skirts."
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