The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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