The Hub of Negativity

Rick Pitino

“I wish we could buy the world. We can’t; the only thing we can do is work hard, and all the negativity that’s in this town sucks. I’ve been around when Jim Rice was booed. I’ve been around when Yastrzemski was booed. And it stinks. It makes the greatest town, greatest city in the world, lousy."

— Rick Pitino, then Boston Celtics coach, on March 1, 2000.