You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The world is run by C students
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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