Rick Pitino

I care what people think, but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things.

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.