Al McGuire quotes

"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 was a cracked sidewalk."—Al McGuire

"I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer who ever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players move up my station in life."—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."—Al McGuire

"Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more. In a generation, you'll have something."—Al McGuire

"There's always going to be problems, and I feel the greater the problems for a generation, the greater that generation is going to be."—Al McGuire

"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.'"—Al McGuire