Pat Riley Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Karma

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

• 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

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Coaching, Overcoming

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Volleyball

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Loss

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

• Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Nba, Play

• No rebounds, no rings.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Coaching, Rebound

  "Dressed For Success". Interview with Kevin Newell, coachad.com. October 2, 2009.

• 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

  Basketball, Teamwork, Moving

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

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Attitude

• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Player, Games

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

• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Coaching

• 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 Riley

  Basketball, Heart, Warrior

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

• A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivation, Winning

  "Dressed For Success". Interview with Kevin Newell, coachad.com. October 2, 2009.

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

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

• 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

  Basketball, Motivation, Attitude

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Volleyball

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

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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

• 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

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Discipline

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