Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

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

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

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

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

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Rick Pitino

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Rick Pitino

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

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

Steffi Graf

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

Woody Allen

Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

Woody Allen

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

William James

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Will Ferrell

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Sarah Palin

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

Saoirse Ronan

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

Saoirse Ronan

I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

Warren Moon

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

Warren Moon

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

Venus Williams

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Roger Ailes

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Robert Ringer

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Ryan Lochte

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Thomas Peterffy

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Robert Griffin III

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

Robert Griffin III

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

Red Auerbach

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Red Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.