Pat Riley Quotes

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  93 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  113 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Coaching, Excellence

  67 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Get Better, Strive, Bounds

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

  37 Copy quote

• 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

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• 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

  49 Copy quote

• 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

  40 Copy quote

• 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

  Teamwork, Attitude, Adversity

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

  70 Copy quote

• The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Keys, Roles

  66 Copy quote

• 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

  60 Copy quote

• 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

  43 Copy quote

• The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Keys

  6 Copy quote

• Don't let other people tell you what you want.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Karma

  62 Copy quote

• Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Greatness, Complacency

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

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Team, Effort, Miracle

  29 Copy quote

• 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

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

  19 Copy quote

• We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

  Pat Riley

  Adversity, Depth, Needs

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

  27 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Helping, Grows

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  29 Copy quote

• Your either in or out. There's no in between.

  Pat Riley

  6 Copy quote

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Attitude

  18 Copy quote

• 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

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• 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, Knowing

  44 Copy quote

• In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.

  Pat Riley

  Adversity, Benefits, Seeds

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