Pat Riley Quotes

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

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

Whatever it takes to win.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

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

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

No rebounds, no rings.

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

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

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

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

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

Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

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.

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

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.