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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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