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Pat Riley
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 20
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Patrick James Riley
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When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
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In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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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Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
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The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.
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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.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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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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Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
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There are only two options regarding commitment you’re either in or you’re out.
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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!
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