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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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New York
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Seaside
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Resorts
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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 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 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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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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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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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