Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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