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You measure a player from the head up.

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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Head
Sports
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Motivational

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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 the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You better have great practices.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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 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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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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