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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
Help
Helping
Kids
Back
Time
Nba
Basketball
Maybe

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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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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 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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The world is run by C students
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