Pat Riley Quotes

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• There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  87 Copy quote

• Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Coaching, Excellence

  52 Copy quote

• 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 Riley

  Teamwork, Attitude, Adversity

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

  54 Copy quote

• The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Keys, Roles

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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, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Attitude

  39 Copy quote

• 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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Player

  3 Copy quote

• Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

  Pat Riley

  Player, Weakness, Instruction

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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.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Block

  36 Copy quote

• Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

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  Get Better, Strive, Bounds

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  64 Copy quote

• Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

  Pat Riley

  Believe, Player, Organization

  25 Copy quote

• Don't let other people tell you what you want.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Karma

  51 Copy quote

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Selfish, Team, Sacrifice

  34 Copy quote

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Effort, Miracle

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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 Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

  36 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

  32 Copy quote

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Determination

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

  37 Copy quote

• If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Coaching, Overcoming

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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.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Player, Knowing

  38 Copy quote

• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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

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  Basketball, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

  Pat Riley

  Warrior, Winning, Losing

  20 Copy quote

• It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

  4 Copy quote

• We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

  Pat Riley

  Adversity, Depth, Needs

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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