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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.)

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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Queens
New York
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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