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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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 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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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