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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

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
Life
Cry
Basketball
Dies
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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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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 a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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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 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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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 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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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