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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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