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.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
-
-
The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIRE -
Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
AL MCGUIRE -
Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIRE -
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIRE -
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIRE -
I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIRE -
I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
Live in the moment that you are in.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
AL MCGUIRE






