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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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