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I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.
Rick Pitino
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Rick Pitino
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 18
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Richard Andrew Pitino
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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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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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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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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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