Rupp Quotes

#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. The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

Dean Smith

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

Don Haskins

#4. The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Herman Melville

#5. People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

Joyce Rupp

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

Adolph Rupp

#7. Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

Karl Marx

#8. The history of the Christian movement is nothing if not the history of Christians struggling to be faithful to God's Spirit as that Spirit is made manifest in new and surprising ways in new and surprising contexts.

Stephen B. Bevans

#9. No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Joyce Rupp

#10. Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik

Taylor Lee

#11. I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

Debra Jo Rupp

#12. Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

Joyce Rupp

#14. By the light of your stars, heal me.

Joyce Rupp

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

Adolph Rupp

#16. Conquering fear today, means no regrets tomorrow.

Aaron Lauritsen

#17. If I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

Joyce Rupp

#18. How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Kingsley Amis

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

Adolph Rupp

#20. Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

Mickey Rupp

#21. 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

#22. I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Joyce Rupp

#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. I would also argue ... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

Dalton McGuinty

#25. He had the kind of smile that inhabited every part of his face
his eyes, his cheeks; there was even a dimple.

Kristin Hannah

#26. Success is the best builder of character.

Adolph Rupp

#27. Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today - knowing there's a garden of beauty that awaits me.

Joyce Rupp

#28. When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

George Erik Rupp

#29. God of peace,
you are at the center of my life,
a strong refuge of peace
in the whirlwind of my pain.
I look to you for strength
and a constant assurance of hope.

Joyce Rupp

#30. Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.

Rebecca Rupp

#31. In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#32. Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to spend a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#33. My idea of a good herbalist isn't someone who knows the uses of forty different herbs, but someone who knows how to use one herb in forty different ways.

Svevo Brooks

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

Adolph Rupp

#35. I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Joyce Rupp

#36. The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Robert Breault

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

Adolph Rupp