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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.

Al McGuire

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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
Dropped
Mountain
Work
Way

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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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 don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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The world is run by C students
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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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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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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