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

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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
Crawl
Rush
Graves
Basketball
Toward
Stars

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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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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You better have great practices.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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