You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Make your life exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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 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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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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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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