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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
Surly
Obnoxious
Arrogant
Coaches
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Team

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I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday 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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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 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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God didn't miss any of us.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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