Pat Riley

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch…

— Pat Riley

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice…

— Pat Riley

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

— Pat Riley

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

— Pat Riley

No rebounds - no rings.

— Pat Riley

Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

— Pat Riley

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

— Pat Riley

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

— Pat Riley

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER…

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

— Pat Riley

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be…

— Pat Riley

In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.

— Pat Riley

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

— Pat Riley

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If…

— Pat Riley

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined…

— Pat Riley

Your either in or out. There's no in between.

— Pat Riley

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done.

— Pat Riley

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

— Pat Riley

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

— Pat Riley

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

— Pat Riley

“After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.”

— Pat Riley

There is no such thing as life in-between.

— Pat Riley