John Calipari Quotes

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

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

We could all use more coaching.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.