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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
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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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 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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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The world is run by C students
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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