Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Make your life exciting.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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.’
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The world is run by C students
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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