Pat Riley Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Motivational

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excellence, Gradual

• Whatever it takes to win.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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!

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Warrior, Solution, Problem

• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player’s personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Particular, Game

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Important

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ready, Change

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discipline

• 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

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Attitude, Effort

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Choice

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Mission

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Believing

• The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suggestions

• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Ambition, Life

  Tags in Career

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Strength

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

  Pat Riley

  Topics in Leadership

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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