Rick Pitino Quotes
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Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
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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 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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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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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
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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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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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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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Live in the precious present.
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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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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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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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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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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 care what people think, but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things.
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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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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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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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With seven new players, we're never going to have an experienced lineup. This is who we are. We're a very young and inexperienced basketball team. But they're willing to play hard.
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If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.
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I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.
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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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I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.