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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

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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
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Dominates
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, Son.)
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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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