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.
AL MCGUIREDean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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 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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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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