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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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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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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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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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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
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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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The world is run by C students
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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