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If I walk in a home, and a young man disrespects his mother or grandfather, grandmother in front of me, I'm out. Because if that's the case, he respects no one. He is not going to respect me.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Respect
Home
Grandfather
Mother
Young
Young Man
Case
Front
Walk
Respects
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If they're out of high school, and they can go directly to the NBA and get drafted and get millions of dollars, I'm for it 100 percent. Just let's not devalue education. Let's just not devalue it.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Devalue
Nba
Education School High School
Directly
Drafted
Millions Of Dollars
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Let the D-League be for players who have been in the NBA, who are on the fringe, and that want to fight like heck to get in the NBA. They should have a living wage, not $17,000 to $25,000. A living wage.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Fringe
Living Wage
Nba
Heck
Wage
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As long as I'm at Kentucky, you've got to be able to take the shots, or don't stay at Kentucky. To be the coach at Kentucky and get what I get, you can't be a 35-year-old coach whose never been fired. I've been fired.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Fired
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It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Different
Distance
Fun
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Ideas
People
Thinking
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We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Heart
Nice
People
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Children
Self Confidence
Self Esteem
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Careers
Differences
Making A Difference
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Let's not have a postseason tournament. Let's have a preseason tournament where you're guaranteed three games: we go somewhere, and all the fans come in, and we celebrate our league. We'll have great games to start the year, and we'll do it prior to the year.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Celebrate
Fans
Games
League
Three
Somewhere
Guaranteed
Prior
Start
Tournament
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I refuse to go in a home and paint a picture saying things like, 'If you come with us, you'll be taken care of for the rest of your life by the program and by our alums,' even though you may only be in school for a year or two. How preposterous does that sound?
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Paint
Life Home Care
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My wife runs the house. She raised our kids with me only partly there. It's just what coaching is. A lot of times, you're raising other people's children, sometimes at the expense of your own. I hope that wasn't the case with my children, but at times, it probably was.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Coaching
Hope Your Me
Expense
Partly
Runs
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Player
Self Esteem
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In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You have to fight like crazy to keep the spot and that it's not guaranteed - it's week to week - and you'll play in a way that they have a chance to win a championship.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Chance
Alabama
Championship
Given
Humble
Opinion
Week
Again
Perform
Fight
Earn
Guaranteed
Humble Opinion
Spot
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Amnesia
Missing
Not Afraid
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I think part of the reason some coaches don't want to be involved with social media is that they expect to be able to do it at a certain level. A lot of them are like, 'I'm not going to do it if we can't hit 100,000 or 200,000 followers.' Well, you're not going to right away.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Coaches
Followers
Involved
Media
Social Media
Hit
Certain Level
Expect
Right Away
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The problem with my guys, all my guys, they come in and improve themselves so fast in college: they go from 'He's this and this' to 'That kid is the first pick or second pick. Four. Five. Seven.' Tell me about those teams: not great. So my guys are walking into bad situations.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Great Me Bad
The Problem With
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If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Curves
Fun
People
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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.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Kentucky
Unique
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When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Core
Absolutely
Coach
Everyone Else
Loves
Group
Held
Standard
Trip
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You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Assets
Games
Nba
Playoffs
Advance
Piece
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People, on their bucket lists, are saying, 'I want to see a game at Rupp Arena.' Magic Johnson will call and say, 'I want to come to the game tonight. I want to see John Wall or Anthony Davis or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.' It's become fashionable to be seen here, because people want to be seen and associated with success.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Arena
Fashionable
Lists
Magic
Tonight
Wall
Davis
Associated
Bucket
Michael
John
Magic Johnson
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If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Care
High School
School
Shouting
High
Generation
One Or Two
Opportunities
Saying
School Kids
Taking
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If the NBA is worried about the NBA, if the NCAA is worried about the NCAA, if each individual institution is just worried about themselves, and the last thing we think about is these kids, then we're going to make wrong decisions. There are a lot of players of different levels, of different abilities. Let's be fair with them.
John Calipari / Basketball Coach
Ability
Different Levels
Individual
Levels
Nba
Worried
Decisions
Wrong
Each
Each Individual
Fair
Institution
Last
Themselves
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