He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

- Adolph 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 kno…

- 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

I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage sh…

- Adolph Rupp

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

- Adolph Rupp

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

- Adolph Rupp

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

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

- Adolph Rupp

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

- Adolph Rupp