I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIREI 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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Make your life exciting.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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 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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