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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.

Al McGuire

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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
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Yell
Boss
Basketball
Prove
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Trying

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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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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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'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 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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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The world is run by C students
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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 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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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