Quotes by Al McGuire

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Basketball

Dean

Resorts

Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)

Basketball

Call Me

Son

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

Fans

Home

Wife

God didn’t miss any of us.

Basketball

Missing

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.

Leadership

Sports

Zero

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

Basketball

Class

Philosophy

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.

Country

Silly

Sports

I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

Decent

Enjoy

Thinking

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.

Basketball

College

Parent

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.

Moving

Sports

Successful

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Ankles

Basketball

Call Me

Catholic

Class

College

Country

Dean

Decent

Differences

Dirty

Education

Elevators

Enjoy

Fans

Funny

Graves

Hilarious

Home

Humorous

Jobs

Leadership

Life Is

Missing

Money

Motivational

Mountain

Moving

Nuts

Parent

People

Philosophy

Player

Resorts

School

Silly

Son

Sports

Stars

Successful

Thinking

Way

Wife

Winning

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Quotes by Al McGuire

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

God didn’t miss any of us.

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

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.

I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

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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