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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

Al McGuire

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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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