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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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 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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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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