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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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