If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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