Rick Pitino Quotes
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Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.
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It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.
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We've made our free throws of late, and that's impressive when you're fatigued.
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I don't think you'll find a more competitive NIT field than the one I'm looking at with this one. We relish the challenge.
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We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the Big East is another story. You have to grow up in a hurry. We are just not physically talented with out inexperience and youth.
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They do such a good job of penetrating. We got beat constantly off the dribble. It was a matter of a team much more athletic than us. Our style is a very athletic style being played by not very athletic people.
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I'm extremely proud. We talked this morning and everything he said he wanted this team to do, it's done. It's really amazing to see.
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With seven new players, you're never going to have an experienced lineup. This is who we are. ... Our guys did a good job. The key is six weeks from now, how good can we become?
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I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.
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Hicks is inch-for-inch, pound-for-pound the toughest player in basketball. We played really good defense against a good ball club.
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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.
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We didn't have any bench, so rather than come in with all second-unit guys, I figured let's mix it up so we didn't lose anything when we subbed.
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What I wanted to see was, were we proud of being in the NIT? We worked our tails off.
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These are special fans. That was a great 14,000 fans - they were terrific. The NIT is a chance for some of our fans who don't have season tickets to help our team, which they did tremendously. I think our guys responded like there was a lot at stake, because there is a lot at stake.
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It worked OK. It was to our favor. The only problem is our point guard (Andre McGee) is breaking down physically. He's doing a good job, but he's wearing out.
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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.
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The new format is great. It's run just like the women's tournament used to be.
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Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it.
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We've never been a Top 20 team, at least not yet. Don't get carried away with beating Louisville. Any win in the Big East is great, but I wouldn't use it as a barometer.
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The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
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I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.