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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
Exciting
Hurt

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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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