322 Quotes by John Calipari

You’ve gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

It’s not just about working hard, it’s about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself.

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself.

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.

I know I’m not a saint, but I’m not the guy I’m made out to be by others.

I’m playing the guys who are going to fight. If you’re not into this, I’m going to someone else.

The best teams I’ve had had a little bit of swagger.

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.

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game.