Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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