Rick Pitino Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Play

• True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Motivation, Nba

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Basketball, Powerful

• Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Long

• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Competition

• Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Mistake, Coaching

• Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Choices

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Games, Keys

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Team, Atmosphere

• Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Important

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Lasts, Surrender

• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dreamer, Being Me

• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Player, Games

• He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wise

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