Football Quotes by John Calipari

That's America, competition.

— John Calipari

We play for March.

— John Calipari

They think they're supposed to win.

— John Calipari

LeBron and I are friends.

— John Calipari

I read books by other coaches all the time.

— John Calipari

Anytime we take that many threes, we're not winning.

— John Calipari

When you're up nine, you're supposed to win.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.

— John Calipari

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

— John Calipari

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment.

— John Calipari

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

Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.

— John Calipari

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

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

If it's late in the game, then you have your five best free-throw shooters on the court.

— John Calipari

He helped my career, helped me basketball-wise and every other way. I'm a big fan of Thibs.

— John Calipari

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

The thing I can tell you about coaching is that we make decision and career moves when your nerves and emotions are…

— John Calipari

I call it, 'The Kentucky Effect.' Guys from Kentucky are usually drafted higher, and their shoe contracts are worth more. They're in…

— John Calipari

The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a…

— John Calipari

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be…

— John Calipari

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

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

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

“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

We're deep and we're also fast. I want the game that way.

— John Calipari

I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament.

— 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

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

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

— John Calipari

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

— John Calipari

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach…

— John Calipari

Please make a basket. Make a free throw. Kick it in. We played bad and I coached bad...we did it together.

— John Calipari

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

In a normal season, the sixth man always seems to get the most minutes on my team.

— John Calipari