I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREIf 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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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You better have great practices.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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