You better have great practices.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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