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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
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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