Coach Paul Bryant

"Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike."
Bear Bryant

"The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the
communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief."

Bear Bryant

"I have tried to teach them to show class, to have pride, and to display character. I think football, winning games, takes care of itself if you do that."

Bear Bryant

Coach Adolph Rupp

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

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

Branson MO Landing Area 6708

Kentucky - Alabama Football 10408

Turner Field 4508

Chipper Jones vs NY Mets 4508

Alabama Bass

Kentucky Buck

Memorial Coliseum

"Live each day as if it were your last day - someday you'll be right."
Anonymous

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Edison

at the bjcc for the Keith Urban Concert 1207

Celebrating Allison's High School Graduation 507

Celebrating Lisa's Birthday 3608

Hayden at the Bankhead Forest 42008

"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, whence cometh my help." Psalm 121:1
(Coach Adolph Rupp's favorite Biblical passage and his guiding principle in recruiting)

"If Kentucky ever had a player in whom the fires of competitive zeal burned with a greater roar than in Ralph Beard, his name is a secret." - Dave Kindred

"If the school had put a million dollars in my pocket, it wouldn't have meant more to me than that recognition." (Joe B. Hall on the retirement of his jersey at Rupp Arena, 2/10/1990)

"We feel that every boy who puts on a Kentucky uniform just plays a little better than he would in one of another color." - Coach Adolph Rupp

"The scandal broke Oct.20, 1951, and I haven't ever forgotten it, and I won't ever forget it until they hit me in the face with that first spade full of dirt."
- Ralph Beard

UK Tradition

Wildcat Legacy

Coach Tom Landry

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
George Patton Jr.

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
Vince Lombardi

“Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Anonymous

Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave."
Paul “Bear” Bryant

"I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal."
Paul “Bear” Bryant

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit - you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."
Paul “Bear” Bryant

Coach Adolph Rupp