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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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 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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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You better have great practices.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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