Make your life exciting.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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