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You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.
John Calipari
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John Calipari
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 10
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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.
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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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When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
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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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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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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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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.
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You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.
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The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
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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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We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
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That's America, competition.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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
Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
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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
John Calipari
You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
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