You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Discipline is not a nasty word.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.More Pat Riley [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.More Pat Riley [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

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.More Pat Riley [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.More Pat Riley [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

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.More Pat Riley [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.More Pat Riley [03/29/2018 05:03:36]