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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
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Nowhere
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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