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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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
Coaches
Personality
Team
Surly
Obnoxious
Arrogant

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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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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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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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You better have great practices.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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