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You measure a player from the head up.

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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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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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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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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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 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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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