Pat Riley Quotes

• Whatever it takes to win.

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• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Choice, Win

• You can never have enough talent.

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

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  Tags in Team

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

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• There’s no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

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

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  Tags in Mind, Strength

• The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

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  Topics in Ambition, Life

  Tags in Career

• People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

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  Tags in People, Believing

• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission.

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  Topics in Management

  Tags in Mission

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

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  Tags in Choice

• 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

  Topics in Attitude, Challenge

  Tags in Positive Thinking

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Attitude, Effort

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

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  Tags in Yourself

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

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  Tags in Excellence, Gradual

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

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  Tags in Warrior, Solution, Problem

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

  Pat Riley

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  Tags in People

Pat Riley (25)

Birth:	20th March, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player, Coach

About

Pat Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, a position that enabled him to serve as their de facto general manager and as their head coach in two separate tenures.

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