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.
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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