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Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do today.

-  Benjamin Franklin

When you feel like taking a day off because you’ve worked hard, remember… there’s always someone working harder. The inches that you need in life are all around you. It just depends on if you want to go the extra mile.

-  Chase Reynolds

You don’t have to win the game or the race to be a champion. Actually, your true competition in life is yourself. If you strive to constantly improve, to make each day better, to make someone else’s load a little lighter, and to make someone’s day a little brighter, then you will be living the life of a true champion.

-  Jace Carlton

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We want to win, we just have to win.  Goodness knows no one wants to win any more than we do.

Coach Adolph Rupp

When asked by Ben Roberts of the H-L why he still wears his jersey on the sideline even though he can’t play, when some players would just wear street clothes, Cauley-Stein responded … “That’s kind of a tribute to our school. I maybe can’t play, but I’m still going to wear the jersey with that pride. It’s never gonna be like this again for us. This group of guys will never be together again. It’s kind of sad. It means something to these guys. The school. The fans. The team. The jersey. I’m not ready to take it off…

- Willie Cauley-Stein 

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The climb upward will be easier if you take others along with you.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter, but by how we respond to those challenges.

-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

-  Booker T. Washington 

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Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

-  Tony Robbins

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

-  Abraham Lincoln

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Succeed and Proceed

-  Coach John Calipari

When you're changing the whole direction of a family, does it matter if it's one or four years, unless you're ingrained in, this is how it has to be? That's why I don't read it, don't care. All I do is, let me take care of these kids.

-  Coach John Calipari

I think we got here by coming together, by absolutely accepting that if we don’t do this together, we’re all going down, They started leaning on each other a little bit more and counting on each other a little bit more.

The other thing that happened is you had a couple fearless guys out there. Shooting does matter in the NCAA tournament. One year we went 0-for-20 from the three-point line. So, you’ve got to make shots, too. I think that happened ... we started shooting the ball a little bit better.

-  Coach John Calipari

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Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

-  Eileen Caddy

…I’m a college athlete. I’m a college student. I have the opportunity to get an education as well as play for Kentucky, who has so much tradition, and that’s really all that matters to me right now. I don’t really get into the politics and stuff like that about whether it’s fair or not. I just know I’m blessed to be in the position I’m in and that’s really all that matters to me. Just the opportunity and the blessing to play in the Final Four is all that really matters to me, when asked about returning home for the big stage. It doesn’t matter if it is Dallas or wherever it is, I’m just happy to be at the Final Four.

-  Julius Randle

Coach Calipari and his assistants are no longer coaching effort, intensity and focus; they’re only coaching basketball now, for the first time all season.

It took four months. It took us four months. So now they got it. They’re young, it takes time. You cannot skip steps. We all want to skip steps. We all want freshmen to be sophomore and juniors. They’re not. And to the people who said Cal wasn’t having fun in the regular season, he said he was having a ball with his team. Now, I had to be really aggressive, he admitted. I had to raise the standard and say this is what’s not acceptable. I never budged. But I always believed in the team and I always believed in the individual players. It just takes time for the kids. I’m proud of them.

-  Coach Calipari

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I’ve always believed if you put in the work the results will come.

-  Michael Jordan

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

-  Phil Jackson

Go ball …Go ball… I’ll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.

-  Coach John Calipari

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Basketball is a pure invention.

-  Dr. James Naismith

Wisconsin fans realize they didn’t invent basketball like other states believe.

-  Coach Bo Ryan

Our people (Kentucky fans) don’t think they invented it, they just made it better.

-  Coach John Calipari

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The word win never escaped his lips… Literally... He just asked us to play to our potential.

-  Doug McIntosch on UCLA head coach John Wooden

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

-  Vincent van Gogh

Love is an action.  You’ve got to show it.  That’s what Cal’s done for his players, his coaches, and he continues to do it.  If you call me and you have a son and you say who would you recommend? I’m going to say there’s one coach I trust impeccably.

-  William Wesley on Kentucky head coach John Calipari

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The best teams I’ve had had a little bit of a swagger.

-   Coach John Calipari

I don’t give up on kids. I don’t give up on teams. I don’t give up on seasons.

-   Coach John Calipari

It’s hard when all seven of them, who scored 28 in a game in high school, give up something, Then you’re looking at the other guy, and when they just settled in and lost themselves in the team, the game became easier. They became better. They had more fun. They became more confident. And all of a sudden, this is what you have. But it took us four months.

-   Coach John Calipari

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Our goal is to have more fun than the other team playing.

- Julius  Randle. 

Coach tells us whoever has more fun wins the game.

- Andrew Harrison

It’s the best thing for us; He’s (Coach Calipari) going to push us every day. You may not like it some days, but at the end of the day it’s what’s best for us. It’s not just about basketball. I mean, what he’s teaching us goes far beyond basketball. It’s a lot of life lessons. So gotta take it in stride every day.

- Julius Randle

He understands (Andrew Harrison) the grind better, how you have to work.  He understands the effect he has on his team more than ever; that he’s got to be more focused on his teammates than himself. 

He’s understanding that defense matters, and you’ve gotta fight ball screens and you’ve gotta play defense.  But he’s matured.

- Coach John Calipari

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

-  Charles Buxton

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

-  William Arthur Ward

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.

-   Harry S. Truman

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Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

-  Nido R Qubein

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

-  Norman Vincent Peale

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

-  Ann Landers

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Don’t let someone’s opinion about you become your reality.

-   Derek Anderson

Don’t let fatigue defeat you and make sure you have stamina to be a champion in life.

-   Derek Anderson

You won't get this opportunity to be amongst the best of the best in college and people and athletics and fans. You won't get this opportunity again. So if you don't embrace this moment now, don't be upset when you never see it again. You have to find this moment and enjoy it.

-   Derek Anderson

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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

-   Willie Nelson

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.

-   William F. Scolavino

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

-   Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To measure the man, measure his heart.

-   Malcolm S. Forbes

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

-  John Wooden

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

-  Jack Canfield

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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

-  John Wooden

Winners MAKE it happen, losers LET it happen.

-  Justin Herald

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

-  Napoleon Hill

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You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

-   George Lorimer

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

-   Robert Collier

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

-   Traditional Irish Blessing

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After we lost in Florida, that's what we were saying … We're trying to get to the (championship) just to play them, So that's what we did.

-  Willie Caulie-Stein

We stuck with it, stuck with it, kept fighting, kept pushing, coaches made adjustments, and we realized that we don't have any more time for excuses.

-  Julius Randle

We're not the same team we were two, three weeks ago, It took tweaking some stuff and making us more physical in practice … and the other thing I would tell you is they're just starting to come together. It took time. We're starting five freshmen, folks. Five freshmen trying to do something unique and special. We're now one of those teams that you would hope we would have been two months ago. But so what? It took time. I'm good with it.

-  Coach John Calipari

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

-  Pliny the Elder

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

-  J. Harold Wilkins

In a time of turbulence and change, it is truer than ever that knowledge is power.

-  John F. Kennedy

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A champion is someone who gets up when they can't.

-  Jack Dempsey

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

-  Marian Wright Edelman

Teams need great performers, but great performers need teams.

Those teams need leadership. When leaders hold teams and individuals accountable, foster collaboration instead of competition, and maintain team as well as individual focus, they bring out the best in both.

-  Dr. Dick Ruhe

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

-  Marcus Aurelius

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite
like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a
lifetime faces us.

-  Maltbie Babcock

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us,
but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
-  Eric Hoffer

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You must get busy doing something about going the extra mile.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

-  Steve Jobs

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.

-  A. Neilen

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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

-  Shaquille O'Neal  

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

-  Ursula K. Le Guin

You will never have a definite purpose in life; you will never have self confidence; you will never have initiative and leadership unless you first create these qualities in your imagination and see yourself in possession of them.

-  Napoleon Hill

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It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

-  John Wooden

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

-  Willie Shoemaker

There’s something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

-  Charles Rosin

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

-  Oscar Wilde 

Obstacles cannot crush me … every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

-  Leonardo Da Vinci

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed.  The vision pulls you.

-  Steve Jobs 

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Your mental attitude determines what sort of friends you attract.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little … do what you can.

-  Sydney Smith

I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.

-  Satya Nadella