Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREYou’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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