Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet. "
Rick Pitino
Different
Coach
Country
Related Quotes:
" He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one. "
Rick Pitino
Wise
College
Relationships
" Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. "
Rick Pitino
Failure
Coaching
Good
" I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little. "
Rick Pitino
Happiness
You
Money
" I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here. "
Rick Pitino
Fun
Having Fun
You
" Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with. "
Rick Pitino
Horse
Business
Passion
" I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy. "
Rick Pitino
Hands
Experience
Better
" Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready. "
Rick Pitino
Body
Best
Work
" Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. "
Rick Pitino
Like
Avoid
Negative
" The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad. "
Rick Pitino
Worry
You
Judge
" One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it. "
Rick Pitino
Age
Precious
Present
" I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move. "
Rick Pitino
Regret
Team
Think
" If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it. "
Rick Pitino
Change
Small
Possible
" Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion. "
Rick Pitino
Love
Succeed
See
" After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important. "
Rick Pitino
Believe
People
Like
" The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game. "
Rick Pitino
Great
Just
Bottle
" Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. "
Rick Pitino
Journey
Humble
Humility
" Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it. "
Rick Pitino
Age
Basketball
Without
" Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week. "
Rick Pitino
Football
Sports
Road
" I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do. "
Rick Pitino
Trying
Side
You
" What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen. "
Rick Pitino
You
Life
My Life
" I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy. "
Rick Pitino
Money
Job
Happy
" I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man. "
Rick Pitino
Man
Game
Happy
" I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done. "
Rick Pitino
Think
Parents
People
" I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys. "
Rick Pitino
Short
Winning
Coaching
" I care what people think, but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things. "
Rick Pitino
Opinion
Care
Change
" Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. "
Rick Pitino
Technology
Art
Communication
" I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day. "
Rick Pitino
Day
Fight
Good
" I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville. "
Rick Pitino
Me
People
Bridges
" Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. "
Rick Pitino
Offer
Improve
Excellence
" Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed. "
Rick Pitino
Respect
Treat
Morning