When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREIt’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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