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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
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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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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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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 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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