Basketball Quote by Pat Riley Download Open image “Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.” — Pat Riley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basketball Becoming Championship Championship team Coaches Coward Dynasty Team Teamwork
I'm a person who believes that if a team that's producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
You can't criticize a coach until he fails to win with players he recruited. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly Copy Share Image
Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid.… — Tite Copy Share Image
When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced. — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
It's the teams that win titles back to back who create a dynasty. It's the sign of a really top team that can do… — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take,… — Jill Ellis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as a coach, you have to somehow accept personal disappointments. — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it… — Billy Wagner Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West! — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Riley Copy Share
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share