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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
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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The world is run by C students
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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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