322 Quotes by John Calipari

We have guys who just haven't played together. We're just trying to figure it out. Offensively, we're taking so many bad shots right now it's almost making me want to vomit at times, but we are being aggressive.

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

When you have your returning quarterback, you are in pretty good shape,

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.

To have that kind of energy after that Texas game and to have one day in between shows that we bounce back quickly. We did what we were supposed to do. All I was concerned with was how we guarded, and I thought we were tremendous.

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.

You have to understand this young man will do anything I ask. This is a guy who shot it all the time in high school, and if I ask him to take four shots a game, he'll take four shots a game.

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.

What I hope is he uses the next five days to get in the weight room, come back and be the star he's supposed to be.