John Calipari Quotes

Most players in this league say they want consistency.

There shall be one measure of wine through our kingdom, and one measure of ale, and onemeasure of corn … and one breadth of dyed cloth and of rufflets …. It shall be the same as with weights as measures …

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

We should have a national standard. State by state is death.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

There needs to be somebody that looks out for what's best for the game, not what's best for the Big 10 or what's best for the SEC or what's best for Jim Harbaugh, but what's best for the game of college football - the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

Rules are for everyone.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

I kind of just dress the same way no matter where I am.

Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

I wanted all my stores to be the same, to offer the same customer experience, whether I was there or not.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.