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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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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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You better have great practices.
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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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