I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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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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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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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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” 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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Make your life exciting.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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