Al McGuire Quotes

Goaltending was brought in because of Mikan and Chamberlain. So rules do change for specific players, in concert with a need to stay up to date on how coaches are taking advantage of the rules.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Make every day your masterpiece.

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

A truly international field, no Britons involved.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

You never came out the way you came in.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.