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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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