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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
Basketball Player
Queens
New York
Eccentric
Nuts
Basketball
Losing
Winning
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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 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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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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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