I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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