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
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
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.
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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.
I think they'll come back because they should. One more year and they'll be ready for the next level.
If you go to the NIT and win a championship, that is special. That's the way we're looking at this.
It's my wedding night, and we're in a posh New York City hotel ready to ... you know ... when I get a call. It's Jim, and he's down in the lobby and he wants to meet with me. He tells me there's this kid named Louie Orr in Cincinnati that we just have to land, and he says he needs me to get there and seal the deal. I tell him, 'Jim, it's my wedding night.' He was single at the time and totally consumed with basketball, so I guess he didn't understand.
Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.
We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
You have to come away with the victory. You can't play this well and come away with a loss.
Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.