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Can't win without talent, you know.

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
Without
Basketball
Talent
Winning

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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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You better have great practices.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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