Pat Riley Quotes About Basketball
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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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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Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
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The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
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You can never have enough talent.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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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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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.
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Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
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It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
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Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
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People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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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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Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
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In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
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Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
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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.
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There is no such thing as life in-between.
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