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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
Basketball Player
Queens
New York
Basketball
Hair
Girl
Ends
Love
Affairs
Affair
Eventually
Gonna

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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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You better have great practices.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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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 world is run by C students
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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