It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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The world is run by C students
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Make your life exciting.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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 nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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