Rupp Quotes & Sayings

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

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery. — Adolph Rupp

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

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring? — George Erik Rupp

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

I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man. — Adolph Rupp

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night. — Mickey Rupp

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

Success is the best builder of character. — Adolph Rupp

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

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

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

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

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

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

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game. — Adolph Rupp

it was a duel in which two participants got up at crack of dawn, one armed with a rapier, the other with a blunderbuss, where shaking of fists and mutterings usurped the place of battle, and which ended with the two antagonists going their separate ways, undamaged but shaken, and with a frustrating sense of honor ruffled but unsatisfied. — E. Gordon Rupp

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

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today's you isn't the same as yesterday's you and won't be the same as tomorrow's you.
But Walter also thinks that there's a real perfect you that you're always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it. — Rebecca Rupp

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

Like an ethereal presence
You hang out everywhere.
Not a naughty or scary goblin,
Rather, an inquisitive observer,
A concerned, caring custodian,
Visiting every niche and closet
Where we stuff the undesired
Of our messy, blemished lives,
You haunt territories we ignore,
Hoping we will find you there. — Joyce Rupp

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

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are. — Adolph Rupp

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. — Adolph Rupp

By the light of your stars, heal me. — Joyce Rupp

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone. — Joyce Rupp

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win. — Adolph Rupp

Rule three, never underestimate nosy neighbors. Mrs. Rupp called and wanted to know why you were standing in the alley, looking into her windows, and she was wondering if she should call the police. I explained it was most likely *my* windows you were looking in and reminded her that *I* was the police, so she needn't bother with another phone call. — Janet Evanovich

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

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me. — Joyce Rupp

Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner. — Joyce Rupp