Rick Pitino

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

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.