Top 36 Calipari Quotes
#1. You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
John Calipari
#2. The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
John Calipari
#3. The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.
John Calipari
#4. New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
Jeannette Walls
#6. What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
John Calipari
#7. Got the domino effect In the front row passin out
Nicki Minaj
#8. I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Vivien Leigh
#9. A successful person never loses ... they either win or learn!
John Calipari
#10. 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
John Calipari
#11. The only day in your life ... Your mother smiled when you cried ...
Abdul Kalam
#12. When I've had too much reality, I open a book!
Anonymous
#13. Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.
James Holman
#14. What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
John Calipari
#15. It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
John Calipari
#16. When I drove home, I burned myself just to feel something. I'm just so lost right now, and I feel like I'm being hit with wave after wave of sadness. It feels like a struggle to even think about tomorrow.
Jason E. Hodges
#17. I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
John Calipari
#18. Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
John Calipari
#19. I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else
John Calipari
#20. Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.
Franco Harris
#21. If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out ... I wont recruit them
John Calipari
#22. I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
Katy Perry
#23. 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.
John Calipari
#24. You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
John Calipari
#25. One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.
Mark Deklin
#26. You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.
Lady Gaga
#27. The guys that make game winners are
the guys that are not afraid to miss them.
John Calipari
#28. I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.
John Calipari
#29. I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
Kara Swisher
#30. Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there
Clive James
#31. 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
John Calipari
#32. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
John Calipari
#33. Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus
#34. As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
R. H. Tawney
#35. The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
John Calipari
#36. 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.
John Calipari
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