Rick Pitino Quotes

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.

I'm not someone who moans.

You're going to have your struggles every now and then, but you've just got to always keep it in perspective and try to have a good time.

I try to take everything in my stride and remain humble, and to enjoy playing as much as possible.

When you think positive, good things happen.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

I have settled on just kind of what I always settle on: To keep getting better and try and affect people positively sometimes. Don't be so negative all the time.