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Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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Queens
New York
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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 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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