Pat Riley Quotes
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
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In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
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The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
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He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!
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All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.
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You can never have enough talent.
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When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
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We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
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It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Your either in or out. There's no in between.
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Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.
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I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
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There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
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