Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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