Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino
Richard Andrew "Rick" Pitino is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville, and coached the Cardinals to the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. As a college head coach, Pitino has also served at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. In addition to his college coaching career, Pitino also served two stints in the NBA, coaching the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth18 September 1952
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
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.
A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.
Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential
I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.
Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.
The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.