John Calipari Quotes

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

It is all about the talents of the young players. If they have the talent you have to give an opportunity. If they don't have the talent then, OK, you have to look elsewhere.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

The most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that's their business.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

You always want all good players at your team.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.