Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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 next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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