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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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
Einstein
Scholar
Basketball
Streets
Common
Sense
Oxford

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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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The world is run by C students
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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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