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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Basketball
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
Al McGuire
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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