Testimonials about Al McGuire — The Confessions of Al McGuire | The Upcoming Biopic Film of a Legend

“Al was one of the genuine authentic originals in American Sports. Unique. One of the few that was unique AND actually had success. He had won as a player, won as a coach and he was a marvelous instinctual broadcaster that told it from the gut. Al would confess that he has committed all the ten commandments except murder…I don’t know how true that is, but that doesn’t make him a bad person. I can tell you this man was wonderful. I can never imagine him being unkind to anyone, not in his nature.”

Bob Costas
Hall of Fame Sports Broadcaster
“I’m so thrilled you guys are making this movie. The country today, we don’t always talk or remember the great ones or we forget about them too quickly. Al McGuire was one of the great ones and I commend you all for making a movie that people need to see. In my 40+ years of broadcasting I have never met anyone so unique or so much fun with than Al McGuire. I love what you are doing…tremendous what you are doing. Time is now. He’s an all-time great.”

Tim Brando
Hall of Fame Sports Broadcaster
“I can safely say I would not be where I am today had Al McGuire not made it so easy and so much fun for me to cover the basketball team. Al knew what to say, how to say it, how to motivate and challenge his teams and people in general. He had an Irish temper at times, but was also a showman, comedian and philosopher. He was a lot of fun. Too many people today don’t know how unique he was.”

Mary Schmitt-Boyer
First female Marquette Tribune Sports Editor / Award winning Sports Journalist
“Al McGuire was a mentor of mine when I was a high school coach, he was the first major coach to give me the time of day. I have great admiration for Al McGuire. He does not get the credit he deserved as a coach. His ability to control tempo was one of the best to ever do it. I am so pleased to hear about this movie and the documentary. I am hopeful for a great outcome and that the Lord in his wisdom provides all of you with wonderful success for this movie. Al McGuire was a wonderful man and it makes me so happy to hear that you are making this movie”

Dick Bennett
Hall of Fame Former Head Coach University of Wisconsin
"Coach McGuire promised my mom that no matter how long it took, he would make sure that I received my degree from Marquette. That sealed my decision to attend. I loved Coach McGuire as a coach, but I loved him even more as a person. Coach McGuire was a caring man, a giving man, and a major influence in my life. He was an inspiration to me. He was very influential, a disciplinarian, a motivator, a father figure, a teacher and a fighter.”

Bo Ellis
Former Marquette and NBA Player
"He was magic. No one like him, so unique. He entertained himself as much as he entertained others. I find myself giving talks now to groups and some of the greats have aged out. I talk about John Madden and people forget he was a coach and know him for a video game and broadcasting. Al is similar in that regard. A movie like this can help capture and reintroduce us to the most one of a kind people ever in sports."

Kevin Byrne
Former Marquette SID / Former NFL teams PR Executive / NFL Hall of Fame
"There has been a legion of basketball players and coaches in the sport's history, but Al McGuire stands as one of a kind. He wore his emotions on his sleeve and his street-wise, down to earth and authentic approach to how he went about it stood apart from the crowd. Anyone who was blessed to cross his path knows full well what a different and refreshing guy he was. There has to be a film recording his life for those in the present to remember the man and for those in the future to learn about this special man.”

Dick Stockton
Hall of Fame Sports Broadcaster
"He was simply the most incredible character I ever met, and no one is in second place. He saw life at such a different angle than the rest of us. He taught me so many things that I’d feel almost stupid at times.” “I didn’t like the son of a gun at first.…He could just be mean, and rude, and evasive. I went from that feeling about Al to learning to love the man and having an influence on my life with his street genius, the with and wisdom of his character, complex as it can be.”

Dick Enberg
Hall of Fame Broadcaster
“Al McGuire was a basketball coach, and for 20 years he coached basketball like Beethoven wrote music, like Shakespeare wrote poetry and like Rembrandt painted pictures. Al McGuire was one of those rare instances where the real person was just as good, if not better, than our image.”

Herb Kohl
Former US Senator (WI) / Former Milwaukee Bucks owner