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Never make excuses.  Your friends don’t need

them and your foes won’t believe them.

- John Wooden

Some people have greatness thrust upon them.

Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

- John Gardener

I coach for the names on the backs of the jerseys …

not just the front.  My players.

- John Calipari

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Do you want to read about history or make history?

- Coach John Calipari

The best players I’ve coached have a demeanor

About them that never moves.  They have calmness…

Physiology-wise, rage and anger are related to fear.

- Coach John Calipari

When you bring in great players to play with other

great players, there’s a multiplier effect, and they

up better than they would have been individually.

They drive one another in practice.

- Coach John Calipari

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We know our will to win, and it just showed us we never give up,

(vs.Notre Dame) and we fight to the end just like any other team.

- Aaron Harrison

We didn't play very well and Notre Dame, I thought, controlled 

the whole thing, but we made the plays, We figured out a way

to win it. We've had other tests, but we have a will to win.

- Coach John Calipari

We know we're not perfect … And not done, either.
- Coach John Calipari

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I’m a success today because I had a friend who

believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

- Abraham Lincoln 

Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it 
will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it. 
- Bob Proctor

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where  

are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.  

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

 

 

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We must walk consciously only part way toward

our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

- Henry David Thoreau

What you get by achieving your goals is not as 

important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Henry David Thoreau

That’s the best defensive team (Kentucky Wildcats 2015) 
I think that I’ve ever coached against. And when they’re 
making shots, and they made shots today, when they 
make shots, there’s nobody going to beat them when 
they make shots like that. 
- Coach Bob Huggins

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More often than not, the world mirrors your

attitude back to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you want to know who you are?

Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

- Thomas Jefferson

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself.
I see life almost like one long university education that 
I never had … everyday I’m learning something new.
- Richard Branson

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Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.

- Gladys Brown Stern

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle

the fence of indecision.  

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

You are as young as your self-confidence,

As old as your fears; as young as your hope,

As old as your despair.

- Samuel Ullman

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- Clive Staples Lewis

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness

than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. 
- Arthur Schopenhauer

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? 

Our attitude toward it.  Every opportunity has a difficulty, 

and every difficulty has an opportunity.

- J. Sidlow Baxter 

Chicago Feelin' Stronger Everyday

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Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, 

not on what you don’t want. 

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has

seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Feeling confident … or pretending that you feel 

confident … is necessary to reach for opportunities. 

It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; 

they’re seized.

- Sheryl Sandberg 

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No one’s going to surrender. They’re not going to surrender.

- John Calipari

This team has a will to win. They have a heart. 

What they learned today (vs. Cincinnati) is we don’t have

to shoot the ball well, and we can still survive.

- John Calipari

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication,

and commitment.  My mindset is: If I'm not out there 

training, someone else is.
- Lynn Jennings 

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When you doubt your power,

You give power to your doubt.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

Striving for success without hard work is

like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.  

- David Bly

The championships, the money, the color; 

all of these things linger only in the memory. 

It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; 

these are the things that endure.
- Vince Lombardi

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The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

- Bob Proctor

It’s the journey that matters.  Learning is more important

than the test.  Practice well, and the games will take

care of themselves.

- Tony Dungy

Stay positive always, even if you run out of reasons to

Be optimistic.

- Kiplimo Chemirmir

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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character

to keep you there.

- Coach John Wooden

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand.

If you can get them all together, you have a fist.

That’s how I want you to play.

- Coach Mike Krzyzewski

I’ve said it for eight to ten years.

Before I retire, I would like to coach a team that goes 40-0.

- Coach John Calipari, October 15, 2013

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Take your victories, whatever they may be,

cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

- Mia Hamm

How we think shows through in how we act.
Attitudes are mirrors of the mind.
They reflect thinking.
- David Joseph Schwartz   

I think they are totally bought in to each other.
Each group, the young kids are feeding off the veterans.
The veterans know the young kids have their backs.
And we’re getting pretty close to that.
- John Calipari

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Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience
is that the opposite is exactly true. Reality is ours for 
the making. 
- Asara Lovejoy

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them great.
- Orison Swett Marden

 

I believe I have the best team (2015) and the best players, 
so let’s just be at our best, If that’s not good enough,
I’ll live with the results.

- John Calipari

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A team above all… Above all a team.

- Anonymous

Attitude is a refection of character and

Character is a reflection of habit.

- Tom Ziglar

If you develop the habits of success,

You will make success a habit.

- Michael E. Angier

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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

- Albert Einstein 

Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does,

we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses

don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining …

they just shine.

- Dwight L. Moody

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In my experience, there is only one motivation,

and that is desire.  No reasons or principle contain

it or stand against it.

- Jane Smiley

There is a powerful driving force inside every 

human being that, once unleashed, can make any

vision, dream, or desire a reality.

- Anthony Robbins

When you are not practicing, remember, someone

somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

- Ed Macauley

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If you want to win, do the ordinary things better 

than anyone else does them day in and day out. 

- Chuck Noll

Good teams become great ones, when the members

trust each other enough to surrender the me for the we.

- Phil Jackson 

There comes a moment that defines winning from losing. 

The true warrior understands and seizes the moment by

giving an effort so intensive and so intuitive that it could

be called one from the heart.

- Pat Riley

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Every person can be a difference maker.
- Johnny Hunt

When opportunity presents itself, it’s too late to prepare.
- John Wooden

Unity and mindset is the most important thing in building a team.
- Tony Dungy

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Give, but give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa 

Initial response illustrates a great
deal about someone’s personal philosophy.
- Jim Rohn

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, 

no man is sane who does not know

how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Please think about your legacy,

because you’re writing it every day.

Gary Vaynerchuk 

The greatest discovery of my generation

is that a human being can alter his life by

altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

Optimism is a happiness magnet. 

If you stay positive, good things and 

good people will be drawn to you.    

Mary Lou Retton

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A team above all … Above all a team.

- Anonymous

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork 

and communication skills before he can achieve the

ultimate in sport.

- Walt Frazier

There is enough pie to go around, so discourage an attitude 

of scarcity because it can negatively affect your success. 

Find out how to spread a positive, plentiful mentality 

through your team.

- John C. Maxwell

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Attitude is a reflection of character and

Character is a reflection of habit.

- Tom Ziglar

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,

But give us the determination to make the right things happen.

- Horace Mann

You have kids here, who have a will to win,

They believe they're going to win, and they

Made the plays they needed to make.

- Coach John Calipari

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