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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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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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