John Calipari Quotes - Page 2

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• The guys that make game winners are
  the guys that are not afraid to miss them.

  John Calipari

  Games, Guy, Missing

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• You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.

  John Calipari

  Careers, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.

  John Calipari

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

  John Calipari

  Nuts, Pressure

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

  John Calipari

  Kentucky, Intriguing, Program

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• The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Games

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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

  John Calipari

  Player, Guy, Good Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.

  John Calipari

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.

  John Calipari

  Team, Kids, Titles

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.

  John Calipari

  People, Moments, Areas

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

  John Calipari

  Who I Am, Knows

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

  John Calipari

  Mean, Poverty, Knows

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

  John Calipari

  Stolen

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

  John Calipari

  Fun, Distance, Different

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

  John Calipari

  Player, Thinking, Trying

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

  John Calipari

  Team, Titles, Disappointed

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.

  John Calipari

  Nice, Heart, People

  Source: www.lex18.com

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• That's America, competition.

  John Calipari

  America, Competition

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

  John Calipari

  Team, Personality, Different

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

  John Calipari

  Moving, Enough, Moving To Fast

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.

  John Calipari

  Groups

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

  John Calipari

  Laughing, Stuff, Stories

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

  John Calipari

  Perfection, Want, Bowling

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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.

  John Calipari

  Guy, Saint, Made

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