Rick Pitino Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.”

“I care what people think , but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things.”

“If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.”

“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.”

“This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.”

“The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.”

“After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.”