Quotes by Pat Riley

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

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.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

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 and average teams want it to be easy

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

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

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

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 the heart.

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

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.