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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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
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Basketball
Life

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There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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 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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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