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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
Sense
Oxford
Einstein
Scholar
Basketball
Streets
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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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 don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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