John Calipari famous quotes

04-17-2025

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Mother #Home
You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Team #Play
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.
-- John Calipari

#Team #Winning #Player
A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!
-- John Calipari

#Successful #Winning #Persons
You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
-- John Calipari

#Life Is #Grind
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Team #Games
It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
-- John Calipari

#Fall #Rebound
The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
-- John Calipari

#Team #Swagger #Littles
I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
-- John Calipari

#Adversity #Opportunity #People
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 Calipari

#Basketball #Unique #Kentucky
The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.
-- John Calipari

#Games #Guy #Missing
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
-- John Calipari

#Kentucky #Intriguing #Program
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Play #Teammate
I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Fighting #Guy
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
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Player #Practice
I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.
-- John Calipari

#Guy #Saint #Made
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
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Team #Working Together
What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
-- John Calipari

#Basketball #Winning #Helping
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

#Basketball #Self Esteem #Player

You may also like:

Adolph Rupp
Basketball Coach
Anthony Davis
Basketball player
Bill Self
Basketball Coach
Billy Donovan
Basketball Coach
Bo Ryan
Basketball Coach
Bobby Knight
Basketball Coach
Dean Smith
Basketball Coach
Denny Crum
Basketball Coach
Dick Vitale
Sportscaster
Jabari Parker
Basketball player
James Young
Basketball player
Jim Boeheim
Basketball Coach
John Chaney
Basketball Coach
John Wooden
Basketball player
Kobe Bryant
Basketball player
Mike Krzyzewski
Basketball Coach
Richard J. Corman
Rick Pitino
Basketball Coach
Tom Izzo
Basketball Coach
Tubby Smith
Basketball Coach