Riley, Pat quotes
1945 American Basketball CoachYou have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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Competition
Don t let other people tell you what you want.
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Control
Being ready isn t enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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Change
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Choice
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Excellence
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Losers and Losing
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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Losers and Losing
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won t get it done.
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Losers and Losing
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team s mission.
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Management
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
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Motivation
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.
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Motivation
There s no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Performance
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Obsession
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
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Teams and Teamwork
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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Teams and Teamwork
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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Teams and Teamwork
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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Teams and Teamwork
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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Teams and Teamwork
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
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Results
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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Teams and Teamwork
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
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Teams and Teamwork
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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Ten Commandments
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
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Attitude
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 ready for greater challenges.
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Attitude
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
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Action
Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Discipline
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
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Winners and Winning