Pat Riley Quotes

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, Best, Attitude

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!
Pat Riley

Important, Human, Ego

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley

Great, Through, Away

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Winning, Champion, Motivation

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley

Result, Striving, Excellence

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley

Success, Leadership, Long

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley

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.
Pat Riley

Attitude, Winning, Win

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley

Attitude, Great, Effort

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley

Change, Enough, Ready

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley

Win, Again, Lose

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Pat Riley

Ten, Suggestion

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Pat Riley

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Pat Riley

Success, Important, Personally

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat Riley

Best, Choices, Pick

You can never have enough talent.
Pat Riley

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.
Pat Riley

Moving, Game, Team

Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley

Word, Discipline, Nasty

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley

Yourself, Giving, Lose

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Pat Riley

Strength, Mind, State

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.
Pat Riley

Job, Passion, Fact

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley

Team, Speak, Voice

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Pat Riley

Believing, Deserve, Create

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.
Pat Riley

Life, Politics, Men

Whatever it takes to win.
Pat Riley

Win, Whatever, Takes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: March 20, 1945

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