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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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