John Calipari Quotes

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you…
• What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
• You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
• If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
• Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
• It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
• You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
• What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
• I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
• The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
• 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…
• I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.
• It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
• I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else
• A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!
• The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
• There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan…
• You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
• We have strong legs. That's what we strive to have in March and that's what we have.
• The thing about young guys is they don't think they will lose. They haven't been through it yet.

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