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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
Every
Saturday
Basketball
Night
Live

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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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You better have great practices.
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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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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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