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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You better have great practices.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying Shhh and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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 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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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 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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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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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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