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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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
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Make
Life
People
Basketball
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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