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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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