Al McGuire Quotes

Alfred James McGuire was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster, the head coach at Marquette University from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship in his final season at Marquette, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992 ...more

Birth: September 07, 1928 - Death: January 26, 2001

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Topic(s): Life Is , Funny , Mystery

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

Topic(s): Important , War , Winning

Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Topic(s): Guy , Basketball , Streets

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.

Topic(s): Ifs , World , Kids

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.

Topic(s): Thinking , Should , College

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.