God didn’t miss any of us.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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The world is run by C students
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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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 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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