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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
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go 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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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