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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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
Saturday
Basketball
Night
Live
Every

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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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 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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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