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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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You better have great practices.
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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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