John Calipari Quotes

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

We could all use more coaching.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

For sure, I need a coach, because at this level, you cannot do it alone.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have.

I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.

Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

My drive is other people's success.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.