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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Volleyball
Sports
Management
Speak
Team
Voice
Becomes
Itself
Mission
Opponent
Peripheral
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In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Losing
Warrior
Winning
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From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Champion
Winning
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Sacrifice
Selfish
Team
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Approach
Basketball
Concentration
Motivational Sports
Profound
Spirit
Teamwork
Togetherness
State
Total
Test
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Volleyball
Sports
Coaching
Complacency
Defeat
Great Team
Intricate
Loses
Team
Teamwork
Great Will New
Constantly
Explain
Search
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It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Games
Needs
Reality
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Attitude
Basketball
Champion
Motivation
Needs
Winning
Above
Beyond
Wanting
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Efficiency
Moving
Particular
Teamwork
Ball
Shot
Performance
Signature
Wins
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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 / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Heart
Warrior
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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 / Basketball Coach
Effort
Feelings
Teamwork
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Attitude
Adversity
Decision
Teamwork
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Life
Travel
Adventure
Ambition
Honorable
Public Life
Life Politics Men
Crown
Regarded
Young Men
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Effort
Miracle
Team
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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
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Player
Team
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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 / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Team
Winning
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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 / Basketball Coach
Erosion
Greatness
Teamwork
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Jobs
Day To Day
Mind Blowing
Passion
Considered
Coach
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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Inspirational
Success
Basketball
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Believe
Organization
Player
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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!
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Sports
Basketball
Declaring
Determination
Ego
Hardest
Human Spirit
Mark
Rising
Spirit
Voice
Warrior
Acts
Contribute
Leave
Problems
Solution
Signature
Vexing
Wants
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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.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Inspirational
Block
Growing Up
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We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.
Pat Riley / Basketball Coach
Sports
Knowing
Player
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