I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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 you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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