Al McGuire
Al McGuire
Alfred Emanuel McGuirewas the head coach of the Marquette University men's basketball team from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship at Marquette and was later inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. He was also well known as a longtime national television basketball broadcaster and for his colorful personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
basketball live-in-the-moment moments
Live in the moment that you are in.
team personality arrogant
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
sports country silly
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.
motivational sports player
You measure a player from the head up.
team men average
It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. 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.
leadership basketball sports
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
basketball team personality
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
sports simple coaching
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
leadership sports zero
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." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. 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.
sports moving successful
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, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
chili dirty waitress
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili should be good.
alley fighters fights great locker socks street wildness
All I could think of was, why me? After all the years of odors in the locker room, the socks and jocks. All the fights in the gyms. Just the wildness of it all. And to have it end like this. It's been a great run. Normally, alley fighters, street fighters like me, don't end up in lace.
basketball kids helping
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
funny hilarious humorous
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.