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
Please make a basket. Make a free throw. Kick it in. We played bad and I coached bad...we did it together. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach… — 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
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
The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them. — 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
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
People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
If you can get a second-round pick that makes it, it's unbelievable for that franchise, what you save and all the other… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say you take players from state championship… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Let's not have a postseason tournament. Let's have a preseason tournament where you're guaranteed three games: we go somewhere, and all the… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
We were awful for a while. In that first half, oh my gosh. I'm looking at it, thinking, 'Can we be this… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You… — 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
The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams. — 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
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
This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it. — 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 my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
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
I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it. — 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
“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 Image
I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be. — 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, all turned… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Every one of us in this country is based on you've gotta take care of yourself. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
