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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
Quicker
Resort
Resorts
Dean
Basketball
Mass
Seaside

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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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