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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Queens
New York
Basketball
Losing
Called
Winning
Eccentric
Nuts

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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 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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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On how to make the game more exciting - 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.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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