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.Collection: Attitude
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Attitude
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.Collection: Success
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Politics
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.Collection: Great
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.Collection: Success
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.Collection: Best
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.Collection: Strength
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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!
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Discipline is not a nasty word.
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
You can never have enough talent.
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.
Whatever it takes to win.
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.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.Collection: Inspirational
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!Collection: Yesterday
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 easyCollection: Basketball
Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.Collection: Get Better
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.Collection: Teamwork
All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.Collection: Inspirational
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.Collection: Teamwork
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.Collection: Selfish
Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.Collection: Team
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Basketball
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.Collection: Adversity
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.Collection: Basketball
You can only receive what you're willing to give.Collection: Giving
Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.Collection: Believe
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.Collection: Basketball
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.Collection: Inspirational
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.Collection: Basketball
The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.Collection: Helping
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.Collection: Adversity
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.Collection: Sports
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.Collection: Sports
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.Collection: Inspirational
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.Collection: Team