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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
Rush
Graves
Basketball
Toward
Stars
Crawl

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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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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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You better have great practices.
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