Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREIf the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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