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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying Shhh and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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 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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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The world is run by C students
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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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You better have great practices.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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 don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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