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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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You better have great practices.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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