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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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
Straight
Basketball
Player
Players

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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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The world is run by C students
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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 better have great practices.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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