Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
Pat RileyThe key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
Pat RileyThere'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 RileyWe 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