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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

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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
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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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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
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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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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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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
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Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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Lying makes a problem part of the future truth makes a problem part of the past.
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Success is determined by your daily choices and habits
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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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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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Tackle the difficult things first in the morning make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.
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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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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.
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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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It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
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