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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The world is run by C students
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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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