Rick Pitino Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.”
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“A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.”
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“I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.”
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“When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last years.”
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“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.”
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“I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.”
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“Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.”
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“Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle”
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“True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential”
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“Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself”
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“Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine”
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“Success is determined by your daily choices and habits”
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“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”
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“If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.”
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“The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.”
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“When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.”
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“Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”
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“Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.”
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“Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.”
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“You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.”
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“Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.”
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“Postponing action is only postponing achievement.”
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“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.”
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“Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.”
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“Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.”
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“The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.”
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“The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.”
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“Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.”
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“It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.”
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“At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.”
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