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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

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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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Basketball
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Seaside
Quicker
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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'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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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You better have great practices.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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