Pat Riley quotes
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“There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.”
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“Don't let other people tell you what you want.”
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“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult
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“Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!”
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“From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.”
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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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“Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”
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“A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”
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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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“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
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“There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”
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“There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.”
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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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“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult
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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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“Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.”
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“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
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“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.”
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“When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”
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“Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.”
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“You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.”
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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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“When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.”
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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.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult
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“Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!”
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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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“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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“Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important”
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“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
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“Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.”
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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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“It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.”
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“If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.”
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“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
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“When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult
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“It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.”
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“Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.”
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“All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.”
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“The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.”
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“People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.”
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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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“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”
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“In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.”
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“Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.”
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“Whatever it takes to win.”
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“"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done.”
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“Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.”
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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.”
-- Pat Riley#Positive Quotes #Basketball Quotes #Motivational Sports Quotes
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“When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.”
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“The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.”
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“In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.”
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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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“In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.”
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“Your either in or out. There's no in between.”
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“Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.”
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“We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”
-- Pat RileySource : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
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“Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.”
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“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.”
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“The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.”
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“I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.”
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“He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!”
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