Adolph Rupp Quotes

• 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

  Basketball, Teaching, Intelligent

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

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Night, Coaching

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

  Adolph Rupp

  Leadership, Sports, Differences

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

  Adolph Rupp

  Sports, Thinking

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Enemy

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• Success is the best builder of character.

  Adolph Rupp

  Success, Character, Builder

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• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Giving

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• He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• 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

  Basketball, Believe, Men

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

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Might, Cemetery

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