Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
AL MCGUIRELive in the moment that you are in.
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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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 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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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