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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
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Queens
New York
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
Al McGuire
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
Al McGuire
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
Al McGuire