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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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World

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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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God didn't miss any of us.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
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