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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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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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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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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The world is run by C students
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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 call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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