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God didn't miss any of us.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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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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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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The world is run by C students
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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 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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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