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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

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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
Elevators
Basketball
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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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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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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