When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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 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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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