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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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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Fired
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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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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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 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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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You better have great practices.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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