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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
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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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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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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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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 don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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