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Basketball Quotes by Pat Riley
- If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
- It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
- No rebounds - no rings.
- 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…
- When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
- Whatever it takes to win.
- "Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done.
- You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
- There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
- 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…
- 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…
- A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
- Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
- 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.
- To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
- Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
- You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
- People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
- There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
- The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
- Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
- Discipline is not a nasty word.
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