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Live in the moment that you are in.

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
Basketball
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
Al McGuire
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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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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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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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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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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday 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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You measure a player from the head up.
Al McGuire