Author: Pat Riley

Quotes

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

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

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

There'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 Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Pat Riley

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