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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Hair
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Ends
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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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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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