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Action(s)
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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
-Pat Riley
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Attitude
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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
-Pat Riley
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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
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Change
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
-Pat Riley
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Choice
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
-Pat Riley
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Competition
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
-Pat Riley
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Control
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
-Pat Riley
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Discipline
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
-Pat Riley
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Effort
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
-Pat Riley
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Envy / Jealousy
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
-Pat Riley
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Excellence
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
-Pat Riley
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Loss
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
-Pat Riley
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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
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Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
-Pat Riley
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Management
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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
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Motivational
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
-Pat Riley
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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
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Religion
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
-Pat Riley
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Results
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People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
-Pat Riley
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Teamwork
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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
-Pat Riley
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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.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
-Pat Riley
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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
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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
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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
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Books by and about Pat Riley