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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
Basketball Coach
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Queens
New York
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Street
Basketball
Streets
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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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The world is run by C students
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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You better have great practices.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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