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“Lying makes a probem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”
― Rick Pitino, Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life

“Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.”
― Rick Pitino

“hubris. It means extreme confidence or arrogance to the point that one loses touch with reality and overestimates one’s abilities.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Success is a choice.”
― Rick Pitino

“It’s easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“you can develop all of the wonderful traits you need to succeed—focus, humility, toughness, and passion—but if you quit when things become difficult or when you become discouraged, they all are worthless.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”
― Rick Pitino

“Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”
― Rick Pitino

“Larry McMurtry and Woody Allen, still use manual typewriters to compose their books and scripts, because computers and word processors pose too many potential distractions.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“With humility, you are better able to enjoy and understand success, and you are better able to examine and handle failure.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“When the stakes are the biggest is when the challenges to focus can be the most difficult and the most costly.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Success Is A Choice”
― Rick Pitino, Success Is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

“The person with true humility does not see himself as a lone fighter. People with humility see themselves as part of something bigger.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Muhammad Ali said, “Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Whatever is happening in life, focus is the key to performance. Without it, you flounder.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Whether we bring them on ourselves or they are forced upon us, difficult times come, and it is what we do once they have arrived that is important.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“I am a slow walker,” Lincoln said. “But I never walk backwards.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Humility stops you from overestimating your own significance and it enables you to accept, understand, and live with failures and learn from them constructively.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“proverb, “A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“hubris was a crime in ancient Athens. To humiliate a defeated foe was a crime.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“adversity does not mean that you cannot experience victory—”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Don’t mistake activity for achievement,” John Wooden”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Succeeding in difficult times means perseverance, and that trait is not prevalent in these times. We are the now generation.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Allowing your focus to drift to negativity or criticism will put you on the defensive. It will get you pointing fingers and take away from the job you are doing.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“people like John Wooden, maybe the greatest coach of all time in any sport, or Mike Krzyzewski, who is the modern-day John Wooden, sustain success for so long. You can readily see their humility.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Humility and gratitude leave your heart and mind open to receive unexpected blessings, even on the heels of disappointment.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“humility was the key to staying focused and to keeping a winning mind-set, as well as the key to accepting setbacks and turning them to positives.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life