1945, American Basketball Coach
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley – [Motivation]
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 – [Teams and Teamwork]
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Pat Riley – [Teams and Teamwork]
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley – [Change]
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Pat Riley – [Teams and Teamwork]
Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley – [Discipline]
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley – [Control]
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley – [Excellence]
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
Pat Riley – [Winners and Winning]
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley – [Losers and Losing]
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Pat Riley – [Attitude]
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 – [Attitude]
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat Riley – [Choice]
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley – [Management]
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Pat Riley – [Results]
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Pat Riley – [Losers and Losing]
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Pat Riley – [Ten Commandments]
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Pat Riley – [Teams and Teamwork]
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 – [Motivation]
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Pat Riley – [Performance]