92 Quotes by Al McGuire

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.

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.

God didn’t miss any of us.

If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.

I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.

When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.

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.

Can’t win without talent, you know.

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