Rick Pitino Quotes
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I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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This is a very difficult conference. I don't think anyone in Louisville besides me knew that. Now they all know.
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I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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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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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
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It's my wedding night, and we're in a posh New York City hotel ready to ... you know ... when I get a call. It's Jim, and he's down in the lobby and he wants to meet with me. He tells me there's this kid named Louie Orr in Cincinnati that we just have to land, and he says he needs me to get there and seal the deal. I tell him, 'Jim, it's my wedding night.' He was single at the time and totally consumed with basketball, so I guess he didn't understand.
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He's not 100 percent. First it's the ankle, now it's leg cramps. He's been a little unlucky this year.
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I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
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He tried to go in the second half but could not go. I don't think it's anything serious. I'm not sure what it is.
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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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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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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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I don't think anyone in Louisville knew how tough the Big East and Villanova was before tonight; now they all know. Villanova was just a better basketball team.
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.
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I've tried to talk to him about it. He's not playing with Francisco, Larry (O'Bannon) and Ellis. And they know every little move that each other makes. He's playing with all new people. They don't know each other. He's got to let the game come to him and trust his teammates. And the more he goes inside to (center) David (Padgett) the more open shots he's going to get.
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We've got to stop Gray inside. Padgett really played well against him and Brian and Terrance aren't the offensive threat David is, so we're going to have to get a good game out of Palacios and our two centers just to contain Gray.
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I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.
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Live in the precious present.
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All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end.