You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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 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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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You better have great practices.
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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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