Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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You better have great practices.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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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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