Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino
Richard Andrew "Rick" Pitino is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville, and coached the Cardinals to the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. As a college head coach, Pitino has also served at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. In addition to his college coaching career, Pitino also served two stints in the NBA, coaching the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth18 September 1952
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.
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.
All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end
When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last years.
We didn't have any bench, so rather than come in with all second-unit guys, I figured let's mix it up so we didn't lose anything when we subbed.
Why don't we just go to New York and we'll see you there?
We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.
The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.