The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
AL MCGUIREI tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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