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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

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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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Keep
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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