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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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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
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Schools
Catholic
Basketball
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Cheerleaders
Always
Cheerleader
Skirts

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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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 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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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