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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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
Kids
Back
Time
Nba
Basketball
Maybe
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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.
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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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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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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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