Rick Pitino Quotes

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

I'm just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.

I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped his team win two championships, and that's the ultimate.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.

People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

It's the NBA summer league and everyone's out there fighting. It's been a great experience for me.

I couldn't be more proud to be in the NBA, to be with the Celtics and be surrounded by the people I get to go to work with every day.

Coaching is competitively addictive. It just gets in your blood, especially if you win.

I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.

Any time you make a basketball team you have the opportunity to be successful.

Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.