Pat Riley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Pat Riley quotes, Pat Riley sayings, and Pat Riley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

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. Pat Riley
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between. Pat Riley
Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go with it. 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. Pat Riley
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. Pat Riley
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important. Pat Riley
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Pat Riley
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. Pat Riley
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. Pat Riley
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley
Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go with it. 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. Pat Riley
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win. Pat Riley
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. Pat Riley
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. Pat Riley
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it. Pat Riley
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. Pat Riley
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. Pat Riley
If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Pat Riley
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. Pat Riley
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own. Pat Riley
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards. 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. 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. Pat Riley
All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. Pat Riley
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time. Pat Riley
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. Pat Riley