If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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’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.
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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.”)
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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