John Calipari Great Quotations

I think what we are going to do is go great ball pressure and deny wings to start the game because I want to know who is not ready to play. We had guys start this game like we don't have to play. Like they were going through the motions.

This is another great opportunity to showcase our program, our University and our city to the nation,

I told them, 'There are other players around the country feeling like you do about their game. Just keep working at it. You'll be fine. We may not be playing great right now. Don't worry about that. We're winning the way we're playing, but they're going to have to start playing a little bit better.

It was a great defensive effort. This game, the rest of the games, we've just got to make the game hard for the other team. We did that today.

It was a great win for them, a great win for our league and for their program. We may play them one more time.

I'm not crazy like him. I can't do it all because I have the old roots of you have to be able to slug it out, grind it out. But it's been a great experience.

I'm proud of Rodney. He had a great career.

A great defensive effort. I always go with the same thing: We want to make the game hard for the other team, and we did today.

They really were just bumping chest to chest, grabbing, pushing - and did a great job of it.

The great news is that we have a lot of guys coming back and a lot of guys coming in. So for this program, yeah, you'd like to have some guys back. But it's about them at this point.

When you beat a team on a 10-game win streak, that's a great win. We had chances to get it to 16, 18, 20 and we're just not capable of it yet.

I said I don't care what conference they're from, they must be teams that are going to win 17 or more games. The bottom of our schedule was dragging us down. You can schedule teams with great names, but if they go 7-21, it kills you.