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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
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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
Al McGuire
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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.
Al McGuire
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
Al McGuire
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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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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 next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
Al McGuire
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
Al McGuire
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
Al McGuire