Adolph Rupp Sayings

#1. Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

Al McGuire

#2. I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

Don Haskins

#3. I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

Ray Bradbury

#4. I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Adolph Rupp

#5. The thing you want so desperately that the idea of having it makes you as sick to your stomach as the idea of never having it?

Lexi Ryan

#6. We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Adolph Rupp

#7. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. You were his, Ox. Even then. And he was yours." I

T.J. Klune

#9. If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

Adolph Rupp

#10. I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Amity Shlaes

#11. Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

Adolph Rupp

#12. Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?

Gary D. Schmidt

#13. He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

Adolph Rupp

#14. What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

Maria Montessori

#15. She knows I love the dude. She's trying to butter me up - both sides, front and back, top to bottom. It's working.

Kim Holden

#16. How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

Irving Stone

#17. I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Adolph Rupp

#18. We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

Ilyas Kassam

#19. The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#20. Success is the best builder of character.

Adolph Rupp

#21. Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

Sally Green

#22. A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

#23. I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Adolph Rupp

#24. You never can lose anything without gaining something. So forget the fear of loss and concentrate on the beauty of gain.

Debasish Mridha