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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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You better have great practices.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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” 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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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 let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The world is run by C students
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