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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The world is run by C students
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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