John Calipari Quotes

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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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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

  John Calipari

  Successful, Winning, Persons

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

  John Calipari

  Life Is, Grind

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

  John Calipari

  Adversity, Opportunity, People

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• 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

  Basketball, Mother, Kids

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

  John Calipari

  Fall, Rebound

  John Calipari, David Scott (2009). “Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.

  John Calipari

  Given

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Nba, Play

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• The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.

  John Calipari

  Missing, Not Afraid, Amnesia

  Source: www.lex18.com

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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.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Unique, Kentucky

  "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• 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

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Fighting, Nba

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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.

  John Calipari

  Fun, Curves, People

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.

  John Calipari

  Firsts, Be Your Best, Versions

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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

  John Calipari

  Team, Swagger, Littles

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• What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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• I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

  John Calipari

  Teacher, Protector

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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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.

  John Calipari

  Team, Winning, Player

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• You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

  John Calipari

  Lines, Educate, Knows

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.

  John Calipari

  Trying, Defining, Sometimes

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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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

  John Calipari

  Winning, Games, People

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• You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.

  John Calipari

  Concerned

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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