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 education college
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.
fighting night missing
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
basketball player students
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.
mountain way
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
basketball moon play
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.
running world students
The world is run by C students
basketball profession
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
basketball life-is
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
basketball kids house
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.
basketball school catholic
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
basketball girl hair
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
basketball philosophy class
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
basketball son call-me
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
basketball fighting guy
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!