” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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