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.
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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.
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Make your life exciting.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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