We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREI’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Make your life exciting.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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