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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
Crawl
Rush
Graves
Basketball
Toward
Stars

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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The world is run by C students
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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