You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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