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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
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Einstein
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Basketball
Streets
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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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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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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 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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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