You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREEvery obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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