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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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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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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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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
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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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Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
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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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True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential
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Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
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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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It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
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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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Lying makes a problem part of the future truth makes a problem part of the past.
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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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