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

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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New York
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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