John Calipari Quotes

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

There is no small team or easy match in football.

You don't have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

My job is to get out there and try to become the best basketball player I can be.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

I love the game of basketball. I love being able to work every day. I love being able to watch film, be a student of the game. It may not show emotionally, but I just love that I'm able to do this.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

We are footballers, not artists.