Rick Pitino quote: "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 they hear it from someone else, and they do listen."

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon...
RICK PITINO

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making m...
RICK PITINO

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
RICK PITINO

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of...
RICK PITINO

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he jus...
RICK PITINO

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If t...
RICK PITINO

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace a...
RICK PITINO

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing...
RICK PITINO

Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether...
RICK PITINO

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as...
RICK PITINO

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
RICK PITINO

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
RICK PITINO

I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will...
RICK PITINO

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned f...
RICK PITINO

Their guys have so much experience they're on Social Security. They're getting checks. They've been ...
RICK PITINO

We just got destroyed on the backboards. Then we panicked and took some bad shots. It was just one o...
RICK PITINO

We've never been a Top 20 team, at least not yet. Don't get carried away with beating Louisville. An...
RICK PITINO

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
RICK PITINO

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

I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the...
RICK PITINO

You've just got to gut it out. It's going to be a tough year.
RICK PITINO

Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much ex...
RICK PITINO

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of e...
RICK PITINO

I think they'll come back because they should. One more year and they'll be ready for the next level...
RICK PITINO

It's unfair to judge coaches just on the (NCAA) Tournament record. It's a numbers game. If you keep ...
RICK PITINO

It's not for entertainment. It's going to be a very intense practice. We're not going to hold back b...
RICK PITINO

Veterans should know better. We learned a valuable lesson of when to shoot and when not to shoot. Wh...
RICK PITINO

I think we showed tremendous guts and heart down the stretch. Getting behind against Richmond was th...
RICK PITINO

Last year we had five or six guys in double figures, we don't have that right now. We have so much r...
RICK PITINO

This group is inexperienced, but once they start practicing together more, I think the sky is the li...
RICK PITINO

I always liked the way he ran the floor, and he's willing to be real physical inside. He needs to wo...
RICK PITINO

I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their seni...
RICK PITINO

Even in the pros, I loved to watch March Madness. It brings back so many good memories and it?s a lo...
RICK PITINO

I just love the whole atmosphere, ... To see East Tennessee State almost beat Wake Forest, the St. J...
RICK PITINO

The formula I always use for picking teams is whoever has the most talent in the junior and senior ...
RICK PITINO

I think it's going to cut the life expectancy of us coaches in half,
RICK PITINO

For him, we're being overly cautious. We kept him on crutches a month longer. He's gotten clearance ...
RICK PITINO

He is special to our game. He is needed in our game, because everyone wants to coach someone with 13...
RICK PITINO

He rebounds well. He has great moves inside in the low post. He'll give us a lot this year.
RICK PITINO

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philo...
RICK PITINO

It's very special because I love the young men that I coached,
RICK PITINO

There was a little trepidation on my part [at first], but when he called me, there was no trepidatio...
RICK PITINO

We'll attempt to out-think one another, but once the game is over, we'll go back to being good frien...
RICK PITINO

He's a cancer survivor himself, and he's lost relatives and close friends, like Jim Valvano, to the ...
RICK PITINO

I think David is a true student of the game. I told him (before Connecticut), 'David, if you keep ju...
RICK PITINO

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and pro...
RICK PITINO

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hou...
RICK PITINO

He's just a prolific scorer. He is great at hitting runners in the lane and he has great range on hi...
RICK PITINO

They're going to have to get a coach as good as Bob Huggins, and that's not easy to find. But if the...
RICK PITINO

You can't let Pittsburgh come at you, ... You can't let Connecticut come at you. You can't let West ...
RICK PITINO

They get up so high on their threes and they spread you. Jay makes a mockery of everything I try to ...
RICK PITINO

When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a dif...
RICK PITINO

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO

He's not 100 percent. First it's the ankle, now it's leg cramps. He's been a little unlucky this yea...
RICK PITINO

Herb is the antithesis of Jim. You don't get a lot of frills with Herb.
RICK PITINO

They were great shots. I couldn't diagram better shots than that.
RICK PITINO

Billy coached as perfect a game as I've ever seen in a national championship game. It reminded me of...
RICK PITINO

When I realized Billy was going to the Final Four, I went shopping for a tie. Bought it in New York.
RICK PITINO

Kevin reminds me a lot of a young Billy Donovan.
RICK PITINO

He always calls me up and says, it's 'Billy The Kid. He's going to have to say it's 'Billy The Coach...
RICK PITINO

It's a big hindrance. If we were playing in the Maui Classic, we'd be in seriously bad shape. But we...
RICK PITINO

Bob Huggins, a lot of times, is misunderstood. He's someone who cares a great deal about his players...
RICK PITINO

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand i...
RICK PITINO

Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.
RICK PITINO

We've got to stop Gray inside. Padgett really played well against him and Brian and Terrance aren't ...
RICK PITINO

He was the biggest cheater the game has ever known. I told Jim he shouldn't be wearing glasses becau...
RICK PITINO

They are tough, they get after you. They have quick hands and are hard-nosed. They drive so much and...
RICK PITINO

We just got destroyed on the backboard then panicked and took some bad shots.
RICK PITINO

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I th...
RICK PITINO

We got what we deserved from the first day of practice until right now. We showed remarkable charact...
RICK PITINO

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in p...
RICK PITINO

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wil...
RICK PITINO

Marquette-Louisville has always been that way. We have played each other tough and battled. We had t...
RICK PITINO

We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the ...
RICK PITINO

For a while it was so swollen it looked like cement blocks were on both sides of ankle.
RICK PITINO

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning ...
RICK PITINO

He's very underrated for what he does for the team. With BJ there's just not a lot of flash. He's ju...
RICK PITINO

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY

It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN

Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ...
RICK ASTLEY

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS

You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B...
RICK LARSEN

I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN

Technically, even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers of the opposite sex to be...
RICK RIORDAN

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN

I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the econo...
RICK SCOTT

Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athen...
RICK RIORDAN

Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN

He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…
“Okay,�...
RICK RIORDAN

Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
RICK RIORDAN

I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies l...
RICK RIORDAN

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 they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

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Rick Pitino

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 they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

Rick Pitino

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