Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Pitino

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Rick Pitino

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Rick Pitino

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Rick Pitino

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Rick Pitino

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Rick Pitino

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Rick Pitino

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Rick Pitino

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

Tupac Shakur

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

Tracy McGrady

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

Venus Williams

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Roger Ailes

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Robert Ringer

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Ryan Lochte

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Rick Majerus

I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

Rick Majerus

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

Rick Majerus

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Rick Majerus

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

Rick Majerus

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Rick Majerus

You must have a passion to coach.

Rick Majerus

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

Rick Majerus

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Rick Majerus

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Rick Majerus

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Rick Majerus

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

Rick Majerus

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

Thomas Peterffy

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Robert Griffin III

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

Robert Griffin III

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

St. Vincent

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.