Rick Pitino Quotes About Coaching

Quotes about: Coaching

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Basketball, Powerful

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

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Mistake, Coaching

• The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

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

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

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

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Games, Keys

• 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.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

• Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Important

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Player, Games

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