John Calipari Quotes

Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

I want to coach my boys and coach those boys that are 15 to 18 years old.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

Something that is unique to coaching young people is there is such a range of talent, skill development and personality. And it's important to coach age-appropriately. You want to instill the fundamentals, always. But the right fundamentals.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.