On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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You better have great practices.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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