Ep 106 - Prepare for Greatness with Rick Pitino

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

College basketball coach Rick Pitino joins the show today. Rick has coached three different schools to a Final Four, spent time as HC in the NBA and is the currently the head coach for Iona College. Rick has had an up-and-down story, but his life lessons of perseverance should teach everyone something. Topics include:

(2:00-3:20) - Growing up in New York

(3:20-9:10) - The first step of changing a culture at a program

(9:10-12:50) - Defining characteristics of a good basketball team

(12:50-16:30) - Humility

(16:30-19:30) - Coaching different types of basketball players

(19:30-23:30) - What your most proud of?

(23:30-29:00) - What made 2013 UL team special?

(29:00-33:36) - Holding yourself accountable as a coach

(33:36-36:00) - Winning a KY Derby or Final Four?

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0:00.0	Well, the first thing you have to do is everybody thinks they work hard, everybody.
0:12.4	And I tell them, I tell this my team every single day, you have to prepare for greatness.
0:18.9	What do you mean by that? I said, preparation is the key to
0:24.2	success. And you've got to prepare to be great. So you've got to put your time in every single day
0:32.5	besides practice to develop greatness.
0:43.1	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet by learning from high performers in a variety of industries.
0:48.7	Our next guest is Rick Petino.
0:51.7	Coach Patino is currently the head basketball coach at Iona University. He has been
0:56.5	the head coach of the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics and also is the only coach ever to take
1:01.8	three different schools to the final four. Rick is someone who I've had the pleasure of watching
1:06.3	coach up close and it's truly a thing of beauty. Rick has been through tremendous ups and downs throughout
1:12.0	his Hall of Fame career and has incredible life lessons to share with the audience from persevering
1:16.9	through it all. There are over 100,000 new podcasts being released each week so it means the world
1:22.0	to me that you spent your time tuning into this episode. If you enjoy it, please rate,
1:26.7	review, and subscribe to this podcast
1:28.6	so we can continue to make an impact. Enjoy. Coach, welcome to the show. Thank you, Eric.
1:36.5	I truly appreciate your time. I've been looking forward to this for a while. You know I've always
1:40.8	been a huge fan of yours. I love to go back to your practices back in the day
1:44.7	and come out and watch your teams play. I loved some of the journeys we had through Biggie's
1:49.2	tournament runs and Final Four runs and the way you always welcomed me. I'll never forget it.
1:54.0	But this podcast is, this is about you. And why don't you start up by telling the listeners
1:58.2	about where you grew up and did you play
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