Adversity Quote by Rick Pitino

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

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

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

— Rick Pitino

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

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

— Rick Pitino

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

— Rick Pitino

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

— Rick Pitino

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

“Lying makes a probem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”

— Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

— Rick Pitino

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

— Rick Pitino

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

— Rick Pitino