Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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You better have great practices.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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