Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt 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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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