Rick Pitino Quotes
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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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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Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
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What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
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This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know.
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
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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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The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
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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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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
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Success is determined by your daily choices and habits.
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Why don't we just go to New York and we'll see you there?
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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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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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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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When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
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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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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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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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Live in the precious present.
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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You have to come away with the victory. You can't play this well and come away with a loss.