Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by John Calipari - Page 3

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

You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.

That's America, competition.

We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

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

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

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.

It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.

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

You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.

We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

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.

Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.

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.

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

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

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.

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.

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

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

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.