All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREThe only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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.’
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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