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No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
Sheryl Swoopes
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I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.
Steve Nash
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Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
Dean Smith
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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.
Al McGuire
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
Al McGuire
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God didn't miss any of us.
Al McGuire
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
Al McGuire
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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.)
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
Al McGuire
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
Al McGuire
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
Al McGuire
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
Al McGuire
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
Al McGuire
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire
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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.
Al McGuire
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
Al Kaline
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It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.
Akeem Ayers
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