It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Make your life exciting.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The world is run by C students
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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