All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREA 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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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