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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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Going
Nowhere
Street
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You better have great practices.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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