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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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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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Can't win without talent, you know.
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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