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Richard Andrew Pitino (born September 18, 1952) is a former American basketball coach. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978–1983), Providence College (1985–1987), the New York Knicks (1987–1989), the University of Kentucky (1989–1997), the Boston Celtics (1997–2001) and the University of Louisville (2001–2017). Pitino led Kentucky to the NCAA championship in 1996 and Louisville in 2013, which was later vacated by the NCAA.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Basketball, Coaching, Fertilizer, Good, Making, Mistake

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

Basketball, Deserve, Feel Good, Good, Self Esteem, Victory

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Being Different, Individual, Motivated, Organization

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

Believe, People, September, Sports, Things, Thinking

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.

Art, Communication, Technology, Skill, Live, Ability

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Cynical, Killers, Like, Negative, People

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.

Basketball, Game, Games, Key, Keys, Way

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.

Basketball, Boston, Found, Positively, Results, Years

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Basketball, Dream, Hard, Hard Work, Willing, Work

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Basketball, Being Me, Content, Dreamer, Dreamers, Mediocre

Postponing action is only postponing achievement.

Achievement, Action, Postponing

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Bring, Happiness, Littles, Money

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Bridges, Build, Crossing, Life, Love, Relationship

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

Fun, Hard, Work, Working

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

Inch, Inches, Progress, Yard, Yards

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Basic, Basketball, Coaching, Defensively, Movement, Premise

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Basketball, Motivation, Nba, Play, People, Potential

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Basketball, Choices, Daily, Determined, Nba

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

Ego, Greatest, Killer, Killers, Potential

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

Engagement, Everything, Night, Possible, Small, Want

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