Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREIt bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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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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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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