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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. 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.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The world is run by C students
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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