John Calipari Quotes

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

I thought Ted Cruz was more fun than Carly Fiorina. And I never thought I would ever say the words, 'Ted Cruz was more fun.'

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.

When you read a book by its cover, you see one thing, and then you find out so much more about them as a human.

I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were just thinking that everything I was doing was some kind of weird mind game, which is hysterical, really, because I couldn't be any less like that.

I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.

Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.

You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.