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 MCGUIREI think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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