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.’
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’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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 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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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