Rick Pitino Quotes

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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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  Basketball, Nba, Long

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• Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Future

  Rick Pitino (2001). “Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life”, p.88, Crown Business

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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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  Basketball, Nba, Competition

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• Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

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  Humble, Humility, Successful

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

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  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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

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• I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

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  Sports, Negativity, Trying

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• Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

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  Boss, Competition, Matter

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

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• Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

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  Hustle

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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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  Basketball, Motivation, Nba

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• Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

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  Basketball, Nba, Choices

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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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  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

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

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

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  Basketball, Lasts, Surrender

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• Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

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  Fun, Hard

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

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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.

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  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

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

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• I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

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  Jealous, Ignorant, Paranoid

  Mike Rutherford, Rick Pitino (2017). “100 Things Louisville Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die”, p.35, Triumph Books

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

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  Basketball, Coaching, Important

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

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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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  Basketball, Mistake, Coaching

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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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  Motivational, Basketball, Powerful

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• Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

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  Art, Communication, Technology

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• When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

  Rick Pitino (2001). “Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life”, p.46, Crown Business

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• Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

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  People, Cynical, Negative

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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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  Basketball, Nba, Play

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• Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

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  Motivational, Meaningful, Lasting

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

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

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  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

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  Basketball, Dreamer, Being Me

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