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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
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Queens
New York
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More quotes by Al McGuire
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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
Al McGuire
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
You better have great practices.
Al McGuire
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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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 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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
Al McGuire
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
Al McGuire
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.
Al McGuire
