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

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
Motivational
Sports
Forget
Simple
Coaching
Keep
Complexes
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Obvious
Basketball

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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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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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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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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