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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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 better have great practices.
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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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