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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.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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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