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I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

John Calipari

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John Calipari
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 10
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach Cal
Motivator
Protector
Teacher

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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.
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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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The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
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You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
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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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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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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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That's America, competition.
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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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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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What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
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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.
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You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.
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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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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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When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.
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The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
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Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.
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Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
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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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