Basketball Quote by Pat Riley Download Open image “Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.” — Pat Riley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basketball Coaching Giving Giving yourself Guarantees Loss Motivational sports Permission
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free. — Jenny Valentine Copy Share Image
Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win. — Brett Hull Copy Share Image
Don't let something that doesn't matter make you lose something that does. — ProudLesbian Copy Share Image
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses. — Vince Young 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