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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
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Queens
New York
Life
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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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 think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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