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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

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
Chili
Ankles
Waitress
Dirty
Basketball
Good

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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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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 discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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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 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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