Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREHelp one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The world is run by C students
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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