John Calipari Quotes

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

Every time I step on the field, it doesn't matter who we're playing, I want to get an interception.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

Every kid thinks about scoring rather than not conceding.

I've got the mind-set that I'm going to play as hard as I can, and I'm going to make the person guarding me work as hard as he can.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

I never let one hand stop me from doing what I needed to do to get down field and win games.

In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.

If I don't win the match I at least want to improve my game.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

I don't think about how going to be the match. I think about try to do the right things to win. I don't think about how easy can say or how tough can say. I go on court. I try my best.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.