Pat Riley Quotes About Coaching
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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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.
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You can never have enough talent.
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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.
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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.
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It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
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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.
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There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
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Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
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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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Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
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If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
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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.
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Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
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No rebounds, no rings.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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