Al McGuire Quotes

• 'The world is run by C-students'
• 'Winning is only important in war and surgery,' he said in 1975. A year later came another classic: 'They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed.'
• 'I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.'
• 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.
• When asked 'How do you know a restaurant has good chili?' McGuire's answer, 'If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.'

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