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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Mystery
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Life
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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