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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
Rick Pitino
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Rick Pitino
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 18
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New York City
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Richard Andrew Pitino
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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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Lying makes a problem part of the future truth makes a problem part of the past.
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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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Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
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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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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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Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
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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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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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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
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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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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
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Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
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Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
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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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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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