John Calipari quotes
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“If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them”
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“You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play”
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“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 only know one thing -- winning.”
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“A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!”
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“You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.”
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“You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game”
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“It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.”
-- John CalipariSource : John Calipari, David Scott (2009). “Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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“The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.”
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“I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.”
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“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 State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.”
-- John CalipariSource : "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.
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“The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.”
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“The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.”
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“What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself”
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“I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else”
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“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”
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“I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.”
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“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”
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“What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?”
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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 can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.”
-- John Calipari
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