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Pat Riley [1945-0] American

Rank: 101
Coach, President of the Miami Heat

Patrick James "Pat" Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures.

Attitude, Best, Great, Change, Leadership, Politics, Positive, Strength, Success

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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.	Attitude, Best, Positive	101
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.		102
Don't let other people tell you what you want.		103
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.	Change	104
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.		105
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.		106
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.	Attitude, Great	107
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.	Best	108
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.	Attitude	109
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.		110
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.	Great	111
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.	Strength	112
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!		113
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.		114
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.	Leadership, Success	115
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.	Politics	116
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.		117
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.		118
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.		119
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.		120
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.		121
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.		122
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.		123
Whatever it takes to win.		124
Discipline is not a nasty word.		125
You can never have enough talent.		126

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