On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREDean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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