John Calipari

Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.

I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it always has.

More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

If the NBA is worried about the NBA, if the NCAA is worried about the NCAA, if each individual institution is just worried about themselves, and the last thing we think about is these kids, then we're going to make wrong decisions. There are a lot of players of different levels, of different abilities. Let's be fair with them.

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.