Pat Riley

Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

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

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

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.

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.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Look for your choices pick the best one then go with it.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in between.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance