Quotes by Pat Riley

About Pat Riley:

Patrick James "Pat" Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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 (1995 through 2003, and 2005 through 2008).
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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

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Pat Riley

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

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, ...

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Pat Riley

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

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley

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

Pat Riley

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Pat Riley

You can never have enough talent.

Pat Riley

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

Whatever it takes to win.

Pat Riley

Author Bio

  • NamePat Riley
  • DescriptionAmerican basketball player, coach, executive
  • BornMarch 20, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBasketball Player; Basketball Coach