When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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