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 profession
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
inspirational funny basketball
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 school catholic
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
running world students
The world is run by C students
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 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.
moving kids golf
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.
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.