I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Now our team's thinking about getting better instead of the other team's stuff, which we really have no control over. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
You take your team; east, west, north, south, because I want my team. I've got battlers. I've got skills...depth...size.s — John Calipari Copy Share Image
If it's late in the game, then you have your five best free-throw shooters on the court. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
He helped my career, helped me basketball-wise and every other way. I'm a big fan of Thibs. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
I think what we are going to do is go great ball pressure and deny wings to start the game because I… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The problem with my guys, all my guys, they come in and improve themselves so fast in college: they go from 'He's… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
If you recruit a kid, and you're promising him the world, how in the world are you going to coach him in… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Let the D-League be for players who have been in the NBA, who are on the fringe, and that want to fight… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue to see my friends who coach in the NBA and see my former players who play in the… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well,… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody. We're all thrown in on this one. We all missed,… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The thing I can tell you about coaching is that we make decision and career moves when your nerves and emotions are… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
“In that way the assistants are like filters, determining what should get all the way to me. But the staff can’t just… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
That's what this league is all about. The first half, the building's electric. National TV. Two teams prepared to go hard. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
In a normal season, the sixth man always seems to get the most minutes on my team. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal. You'll go down, don't… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If… — John Calipari Copy Share
If you have all seniors, then it probably doesn't mean much because those guys aren't going to be back. But if you have a… — John Calipari Copy Share
“When it comes to how we make up our staff, I need positive people around me. People with a “we can do this” mentality.… — John Calipari Copy Share
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it. — John Calipari Copy Share
Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball. — John Calipari Copy Share
“Their first coach was James Naismith, who invented the sport of basketball. (He is less known for being the only Kansas coach in history… — John Calipari Copy Share
I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be. — John Calipari Copy Share
It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody. We're all thrown in on this one. We all missed, all turned… — John Calipari Copy Share
Every one of us in this country is based on you've gotta take care of yourself. — John Calipari Copy Share
We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it… — John Calipari Copy Share
