John Calipari Quotes

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

I was fortunate to play on great teams that allowed me to play with my own personality, which is so important to a goaltender.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.

I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.

If the captain stands still and looks clueless, then it spreads to the whole team.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

It helps being on a good team with a winning culture and just being confident in myself.