John Calipari
John Calipari
John Vincent Calipariis an American college basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach at the University of Kentucky. Calipari was previously the head coach at the University of Memphisand the University of Massachusetts. He was also the head coach of the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Netsand the Dominican Republic national basketball team in 2011 and 2012...
bad chance ourselves win
You can't win this kind of game. To give ourselves a chance to win as bad as we were playing, I was stunned.
moving enough
We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
teacher protector
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
children grind our-children
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.
Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.
competition
That's America, competition.
fun distance different
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.
team personality different
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.
laughing kind
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.
people moments
You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
making-a-difference my-family you-can-make-a-difference
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.
trying sometimes
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.
We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.
concerned
Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.