77 Pat Riley Quotes on Breakthrough, Commitment and Life - Quotes.pub

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

Careers Quotes

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.

You can never have enough talent.

I’d like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

The changes in your life aren’t always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.

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

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

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.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

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.

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

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

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.

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.

He’s the greatest clutch player I’ve ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That’s why I believe in practicing a team to train when it’s exhausted.

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.

Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

You can only receive what you’re willing to give.

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.

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

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

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.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

Don’t let other people tell you what you want.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Fun Quotes

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

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

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.

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

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!

Your either in or out. There’s no in between.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in between.

When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

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.

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

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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.

No rebounds – no rings.

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

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

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

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