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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
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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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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 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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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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