Al McGuire Quotes

Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

Can’t win without talent, you know.

That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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.

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.

Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)

The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.

” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.

The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.