They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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