The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREIt’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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