Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Make your life exciting.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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 measure a player from the head up.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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