I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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The 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.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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