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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
Seaside
Quicker
Resort
Resorts
Dean
Basketball
Mass

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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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 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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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