We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREEliminate 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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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.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You better have great practices.
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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 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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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.
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