Pat Williams

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We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Home
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
- Pat Williams
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
- Pat Williams
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
- Pat Williams
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I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
- Pat Williams
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As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Attitude
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Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Fake
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The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Powerful
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Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Workout
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I don't think leaders are born. Well, they're born; everybody's born, but I think leadership can be enhanced, they can be developed, and I think that it's important we do that, particularly with our youngsters.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Thinking
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This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Mean
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There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Thinking
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To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen
- Pat Williams
Collection: Book
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We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Basketball
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Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Children
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Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Baseball
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What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Funny
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Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Waiting
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When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Thinking
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The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Basketball
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Don't hide your goosebumps.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Monday