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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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
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Basketball
Toward
Stars
Crawl
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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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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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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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