I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIREIf 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You better have great practices.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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.
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The world is run by C students
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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 was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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