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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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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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Sophomore
Freshman
Basketball
Become
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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 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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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