Pat Riley famous quotes

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

#Commitment #Two

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

#Positivity #People #Want

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

#Attitude #Adversity #Alertness

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 #Motivational Sports #Determination

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
-- Pat Riley

#Winning #Champion #Dynasty

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

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Motivational Sports #Loss

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
-- Pat Riley

#Teamwork #Effort #Instinct

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

#Teamwork #Important #Indispensable

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

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

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

#Teamwork #Sports #Volleyball

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

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

#Change #Sports #Promotion

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Volleyball #Attitude

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Basketball

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

#Basketball #Motivation #Winning

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Faces #Steps

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

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Team

You can never have enough talent.
-- Pat Riley

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Talent

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Player #Games

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

#Basketball #Done

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
-- Pat Riley

#Luck #Chance

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

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

#Yesterday #Excellence #Coaching

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 #Keys

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

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Play #Yesterday

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
-- Pat Riley

#Get Better #Strive

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

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Choices

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

No rebounds - no rings.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Coaching #Rebound

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Games #Coaching

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Coaching #Overcoming

Discipline is not a nasty word.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Volleyball #Discipline

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
-- Pat Riley

#Teamwork #Careers #Way

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

#Sports #Fighting #Circles

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.
-- Pat Riley

#Reality #Games #Needs

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 #Travel #Ambition

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

#Jobs #Passion #Mind Blowing

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Suggestions #Ten Commandments

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

#Motivational #Basketball #Sports

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
-- Pat Riley

#Teamwork #Coward #Dynasty

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 #Sports

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.
-- Pat Riley

#Teamwork #Effort #Feelings

Whatever it takes to win.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Winning #Whatever It Takes

"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done.
-- Pat Riley

#Basketball #Done #Get It Done

Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.
-- Pat Riley

#Sports #Fighting #Circles

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 you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
-- Pat Riley

#Harder #Deck

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

In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
-- Pat Riley

#Adversity #Benefits

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
-- Pat Riley

#Reputation #Wonderful #Remembered

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

Your either in or out. There's no in between.
-- Pat Riley

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
-- Pat Riley

#Team #Greatness #Complacency

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.
-- Pat Riley

#Adversity #Needs #Depth

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
-- Pat Riley

#Player #Weakness #Instruction

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.
-- Pat Riley

#Teamwork #Greatness #Erosion

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.
-- Pat Riley

#Inspirational #Motivational #Keys

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
-- Pat Riley

#Heart #Simple #Choices

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!
-- Pat Riley

#Player #West #Hell