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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
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New York
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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The world is run by C students
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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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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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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