The One-Day Contract Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“when you tell the truth your problems become part of your past, but when you lie they become part of your future.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“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

“We may think that kids have a natural fascination with phones. Really, children have a fascination with whatever Mom and Dad find fascinating.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“performance is your greatest ally in dealing with adversity, and focus is your greatest weapon in achieving that performance.”
― 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

“if you get distracted from doing your job, you can’t perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.”
― 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

“A good shooter taking a great shot is better than a great shooter taking a bad one.”
― 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

“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

“On what will you be judged, the current difficulty, or the final result?”
― 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

“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

“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

“John Wooden said, “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
― Rick Pitino, The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

“Humble people share the credit of their success, and accept their failures with courage and character.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Failure is not final, and I always have said it is fertilizer for future success.”
― 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