Greatest KY basketball quotes

**RunItUpTheGut** · 10-16-2011, 01:36 PM

found this on ESPN....

Of the Final Four teams, the one with the greatest basketball tradition is the University of Kentucky Wildcats. Here are five all-time great University of Kentucky basketball quotes:

1. "Kentucky players put their pants on the same way our players do. It just takes them a little longer to pull them up."

-- Joe Sexson, former Butler coach

2. "I'd just as soon freeze to death."

-- Ashley Judd, Kentucky graduate, on being offered a University of North Carolina jacket on a movie set

3. "They're great. We could play them 10 times and lose nine. I wouldn't be sure we would win the tenth."

-- Rick Majerus, on a great Kentucky team

4. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."

-- Winston Bennett, former University of Kentucky basketball player

5. "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, legendary Kentucky basketball coach

***Spud6*** · 10-16-2011, 03:27 PM

Number 5 is what made Rupp who he was.

**LWC** · 10-16-2011, 04:06 PM

Aside from the obvious, that attitude that Ashley Judd is has is why we love her!

**RunItUpTheGut** · 10-16-2011, 10:43 PM

lol you both are right.
The Rupp comment is probably the best college coaching comment made of all time.
The Judd comment is why we absoloutly love her. And you know she said it to.

***Spud6*** · 10-16-2011, 10:51 PM

RunItUpTheGut Wrote:lol you both are right.
The Rupp comment is probably the best college coaching comment made of all time.
The Judd comment is why we absoloutly love her. And you know she said it to.

She's awesome!

:foreveralone:

**TidesHoss32** · 10-17-2011, 01:52 AM

My favorite UK quote is simple. One of the great basketball minds and characters of all time once said about Kentucky's tradition,
"They had it before you, they had it during you, they'll have it when you're gone"- Al McGuire.

dangerousdaneerfan · 10-17-2011, 07:36 PM

"We will beat WVU by 30 points. It will be a blowout." - BGR posters prior to the WVU/UK Regional Final in 2010.

**vundy33** · 10-17-2011, 08:22 PM

dangerousdaneerfan Wrote:"We will beat WVU by 30 points. It will be a blowout." - BGR posters prior to the WVU/UK Regional Final in 2010.

lol, keep living in the past. We've already beat you since then. WVU got their credit for that win, and rightfully so...you had better keep holding that win against your chest, because pretty soon we're going to start beating you down year in and year out.

You won't be in the Big East anymore...Kentucky and BBN own this league, and will always own this league. Get used to it.

:welcome:

LOOKAYANNER · 10-17-2011, 11:03 PM

dangerousdaneerfan Wrote:"We will beat WVU by 30 points. It will be a blowout." - BGR posters prior to the WVU/UK Regional Final in 2010.

Whew!!! I'm glad West Virginia isn't coming into the SEC. UK basketball would be shaking in their shoes with a powerhouse like that in the neighborhood. :please: Confused

leep:

**vundy33** · 10-18-2011, 12:44 AM

lol what?! Hahahaha, comeback fail on my part. I thought it was official that WVU was coming to the SEC?!?! I was on the road alot when all that talk was going down, but I thought it was nearly official?

Man, that sucks. I was looking forward to it, even in football. Not because UK would beat them down every year, which would happen in basketball, but for a new rivalry.

Ahh well...I don't see a huge rivalry with Mizzou any time soon, lol..

**RunItUpTheGut** · 10-18-2011, 02:42 AM

It never fails that the WV couple show up.

Remember now, there 15 million people in WV and only 4 last names, i just hope you to love birds break the cycle and dont have the same one.