John Calipari Quotes
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A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard
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You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
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The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.
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Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.
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A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!
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You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
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It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
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Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.
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You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.
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If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.
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The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.
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When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.
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It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
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I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.
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The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
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You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.
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I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else
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I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
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We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
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We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.
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I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.
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Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.
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When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.
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There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.
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If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.
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Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.
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Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
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The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
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You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
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I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
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