John Calipari Quotes on Education (7 Quotes)

You have to understand this young man will do anything I ask. This is a guy who shot it all the time in high school, and if I ask him to take four shots a game, he'll take four shots a game.

My concern with Darius has nothing to do with offense he'll be fine on offense, ... It has to do with whether he can guard the position. Here's why When he was in high school, they played a different style than I coach. It was, 'press all over and try to steal the ball.' You can't play in college or the NBA that way -- you have to guard somebody. Now that he's playing for me, it's going to be different.

I think the university and I have gone out of our way to give Jeremy every chance to be a part of this program, but we can not allow his actions to continue to be an ongoing distraction for this team.

They're intelligent kids. They're doing well in school. They take care of business. ... Decision-making can be suspect at times based on their inexperience.

This is a kid who has great confidence in his ability and is a tough-nosed player. He is a mentally tough kid. In the state finals when Allen was a senior at Booker T. Washington High School, his team was down by 10 points. Andre had four steals, about 12 points, and won the game. We hoped he could do that for us and he did that today.

How about that That's the first time in the history of the school.

I want him to understand he's just part of this team, ... For most kids coming out of high school, they were the team. Most of these kids think leadership is everyone serving them. Leadership is you serving everybody. So we're putting him in with older guys who can teach him things.