Rick Pitino Quotes
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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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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 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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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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At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.
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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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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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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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Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
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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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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
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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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Why don't we just go to New York and we'll see you there?
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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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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Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential.
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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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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'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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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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You have to come away with the victory. You can't play this well and come away with a loss.
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Live in the precious present.