Top 56 Al McGuire Quotes

#1. My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

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Al McGuire Quotes #18117
#2. Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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Al McGuire Quotes #20814
#3. The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

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Al McGuire Quotes #42938
#4. When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

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Al McGuire Quotes #112419
#5. You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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Al McGuire Quotes #139001
#6. The world is run by C students

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Al McGuire Quotes #164567
#7. Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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Al McGuire Quotes #172739
#8. Can't win without talent, you know.

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Al McGuire Quotes #183339
#9. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #207817
#10. A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

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Al McGuire Quotes #249272
#11. When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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Al McGuire Quotes #280416
#12. Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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Al McGuire Quotes #377226
#13. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #428727
#14. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #573272
#15. If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

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Al McGuire Quotes #578118
#16. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #593625
#17. Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

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Al McGuire Quotes #653401
#18. All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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Al McGuire Quotes #683043
#19. Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

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Al McGuire Quotes #705609
#20. I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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Al McGuire Quotes #708778
#21. I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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Al McGuire Quotes #796544
#22. I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

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Al McGuire Quotes #816449
#23. I think the world is run by 'C' students.

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Al McGuire Quotes #889286
#24. It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

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#25. I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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Al McGuire Quotes #932474
#26. Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

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#27. We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1004017
#28. 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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#29. If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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#30. 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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#31. The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1085994
#32. Live in the moment that you are in.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1093294
#33. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #1101208
#34. The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1121554
#35. On how to make the game more exciting - 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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#36. Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1171646
#37. Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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#38. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #1249212
#39. The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1281242
#40. Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1334258
#41. Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1362498
#42. If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1375184
#43. That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1376164
#44. I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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#45. I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

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#46. It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1425696
#47. I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1451884
#48. They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1546210
#49. You better have great practices.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1552256
#50. God didn't miss any of us.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1559896
#51. Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

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#52. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #1593087
#53. 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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Al McGuire Quotes #1660505
#54. You measure a player from the head up.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1683464
#55. I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

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Al McGuire Quotes #1850930
#56. Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. 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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