Pat Riley

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.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

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

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

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.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.