John Calipari

John Wooden's books are great.

— John Calipari

We play for March.

— John Calipari

Change does not come easy.

— John Calipari

There are no boys in this game.

— John Calipari

My job is to protect my guys.

— John Calipari

I have bobby pins everywhere.

— John Calipari

Obviously, I'm not chasing the NBA.

— John Calipari

Malik Monk is special. Special.

— John Calipari

How 'bout that. We're chasing greatness.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

— John Calipari

How about that? That's the first time in the history of the school.

— John Calipari

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

— John Calipari

If you don't deserve to play, you won't play.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

I've always said I have more money than I can spend, than my children can spend.

— John Calipari

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

— John Calipari

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

— John Calipari

We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way,…

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

— John Calipari

Now our team's thinking about getting better instead of the other team's stuff, which we really have no control over.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

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…

— John Calipari

If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to…

— John Calipari

I think what we are going to do is go great ball pressure and deny wings to start the game because I…

— John Calipari

We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to…

— John Calipari

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna…

— John Calipari

Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They're not. They're crazy in that they watch the tape of…

— John Calipari

You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is…

— John Calipari

I think part of the reason some coaches don't want to be involved with social media is that they expect to be…

— John Calipari

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA.…

— John Calipari

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is…

— John Calipari

People, on their bucket lists, are saying, 'I want to see a game at Rupp Arena.' Magic Johnson will call and say,…

— John Calipari

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely…

— John Calipari

“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

“Nobody makes a big deal out of it when baseball players turn pro right out of high school. I don’t remember an…

— John Calipari

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs.…

— John Calipari

If the NBA is worried about the NBA, if the NCAA is worried about the NCAA, if each individual institution is just…

— John Calipari