Pat Riley

“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.”

“Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”

“Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance”

“Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.”

“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.”

“Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.”

“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”

“The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.”

“You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.”

“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 of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!”

“There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.”

“Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.”

“Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.”

“All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.”

“Discipline is not a nasty word.”

“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.”

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.”

“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.”