Rick Pitino Quotes
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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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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Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
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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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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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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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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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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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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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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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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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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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I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
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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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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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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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Live in the precious present.
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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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I've never beaten a team that played that well. This is the gutsiest, most phenomenally tough group that I've ever been around.
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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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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.
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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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All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end.