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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

Al McGuire

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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
Important
Surgery
Basketball
Winning
War

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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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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 don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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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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