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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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 better have great practices.
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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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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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