Adolph Rupp Quotes

“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

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• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Learn
  • Mountains

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Support
  • Myself

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Home
  • House
  • Lucky

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Thank You

• The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

  

  Larry King
  • Famous
  • Being
  • Being Famous

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Today
  • Know

• I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • House
  • Fire

• I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

  

  Jodelle Ferland
  • Long
  • Fun

• Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Differences
  • Growing Up
  • Convenience

• Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Different
  • Christianity

• Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Kids

• When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Music
  • Find
  • Hustling

• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Winning

• A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

  

  Aristotle
  • Danger
  • Enemies
  • Unites

• “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
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Enemies