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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
Basketball
Maybe
Help
Helping
Kids
Back
Time
Nba

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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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