Rick Pitino Quotes
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Live in the precious present.
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Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
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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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Why don't we just go to New York and we'll see you there?
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The whole NIT we're playing great defense, that's what we're trying to stress. We talked about, we can't hang our heads because we had injuries, we can't hang our heads because we're young. If you can head to the NIT Final Four, it means you're playing good basketball.
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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Success is determined by your daily choices and habits.
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I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.
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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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The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.
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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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Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.
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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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Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
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The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.
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He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
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Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.
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All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end.
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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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Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine.
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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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Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.
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You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
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If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.