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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
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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 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 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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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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