John Calipari Quotes


Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.


Citations

Calipari, John, and Michael Sokolove. Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out. Penguin Press, 2014.

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John Calipari
John Calipari
  • Born: February 10, 1959
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Basketball Coach

John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (in 1996, 2008 and 2015), and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.