Pat Riley Quotes About Coaching

Quotes about: Coaching

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

• 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

• 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

• 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

• No rebounds, no rings.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Coaching, Rebound

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

• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Coaching

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

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Coaching, 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

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• 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

• Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Team, Commitment

• 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

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

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

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

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Winning

• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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