Quotes About John Calipari

#1. The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

John Calipari

#2. There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

Mindy Kaling

#3. 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

#4. I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

John Calipari

#5. It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

John Calipari

#6. What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

#7. You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

John Calipari

#8. A successful person never loses ... they either win or learn!

John Calipari

#9. I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

John Calipari

#11. You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

John Calipari

#12. 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

#13. The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

John Calipari

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

John Calipari

#17. He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.

Jay Kristoff

#18. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

John Calipari

#19. 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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#20. First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Yann Martel

#21. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Iyanla Vanzant

#22. I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

John Calipari

#23. Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

Rufus Wainwright

#24. The guys that make game winners are
the guys that are not afraid to miss them.

John Calipari

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. 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

#29. When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Jacob Artist