John Calipari Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Nba, Play

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

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Nba

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Games

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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