On how to make the game more exciting.
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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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.
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