Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The world is run by C students
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Make your life exciting.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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