Quotes by Pat Riley

Pat Riley

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Basketball

Motivation

Winning

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.

Basketball

Moving

Teamwork

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.

Jobs

Mind Blowing

Passion

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

Great Voice

Life

Voice

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.

Block

Growing Up

Inspirational

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.

Believe

Organization

Player

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.

Effort

Miracle

Team

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.

Bounds

Get Better

Strive

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

Basketball

Fun

Simple

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

Basketball

Believe

Team

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Adversity

Alertness

Ambition

Attitude

Basketball

Believe

Benefits

Block

Bounds

Champion

Chance

Change

Choices

Coaching

Commitment

Complacency

Coward

Decision

Depth

Determination

Discipline

Done

Effort

Erosion

Excellence

Faces

Feelings

Fun

Games

Get Better

Giving

Great Coach

Great Voice

Greatness

Growing Up

Grows

Heart

Hell

Helping

Inspirational

Inspirational Football

Instruction

Jobs

Karma

Keys

Knowing

Leadership

Life

Losing

Loss

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Quotes by Pat Riley

Pat Riley

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.

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

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

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