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… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
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… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“Lying makes a probem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.” — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift,… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last four years. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
