I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You better have great practices.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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