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.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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