Rick Pitino Quotes
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Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of 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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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
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Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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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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Live in the precious present.
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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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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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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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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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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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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 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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I care what people think, but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things.
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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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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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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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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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If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.
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I think they'll come back because they should. One more year and they'll be ready for the next level.
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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 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.