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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Nuts
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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 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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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