Pat Riley Quotes

Basketball Coach

Pat Riley, born on March 20, 1945, is a renowned basketball coach with a distinguished career in the NBA. He has led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships.

Famous Pat Riley Quotes

“Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.”

Believe Games I Believe Team Basketball Train I Believe In Exhausted Fatigue Conditioning

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

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“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.”

Effort Team Ordinary Miracle Great Team

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“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”

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Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

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

Speak Sports Voice Team Management Missions Opponents Volleyball

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“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.”

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Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.”

Source: Winner Within Success

“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”

Team Becoming Basketball Coaches Coward Teamwork Championship Dynasty Championship Team

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“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.”

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Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.”

Feelings Happens Energy Effort Team Building Flow Significance Teamwork Team Building

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“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.”

“Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.”

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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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“Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.”

Lasts Team Greatness Standing Complacency Hurdle

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“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.”

Individual Difficult Sacrifice Team Easier Selfish Difficult Things Being Selfish

Author:Pat Riley

About the Author

Born: March 20, 1945
Known for: Basketball Coach
Quotes: 74

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The winner within: a life plan for team playersRelated source material

Winner Within SuccessRelated source material

The Definitive Word on Michael JordanRelated source material

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