I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
AL MCGUIREI believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
AL MCGUIREIf the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREI had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREWhen I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
AL MCGUIREIf 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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
AL MCGUIREThe nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREA 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.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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