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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.

Rick Pitino

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Rick Pitino
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 18
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
New York City
New York
Richard Andrew Pitino
Life
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Basketball
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Pipe
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Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
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Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
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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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