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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
Common
Sense
Oxford
Einstein
Scholar
Basketball
Streets

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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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 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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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