Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I 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.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Make your life exciting.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You better have great practices.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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