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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
Catholic
Basketball
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School
Cheerleaders
Always
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Skirts
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Schools

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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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