322 Quotes by John Calipari

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year than this year. What we went through last year, we can laugh, but I will not watch a tape from last year.

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.

They think they're supposed to win. It makes me laugh. They're looking at me, like, 'Would you calm down?

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.

They've always been more than fair to me, so I don't expect anything other than that they're going to be more than fair. I want to be the coach here. I think they want me to be the coach here. Let's just go.

They (UAB) didn't go away, and they had shots to get right back into the game and missed some shots late. I thought the rebounding edge is what put us over the top.

They have fresh legs and fresh minds and that's what we're always trying to strive for in March.

They (East Carolina) came out and played like it was the Final Four. They could have easily won this game and we are lucky to be leaving here with a win. If ECU plays like that every night out, they will give a lot of teams trouble and make some noise in the conference. I take my hat off to Ricky and the team. We played as well as we could play.