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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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John Calipari
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 10
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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.
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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.
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The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.
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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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The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
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Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
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I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
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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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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.
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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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We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
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What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
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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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