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If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
Pat Riley
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Pat Riley
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 20
American Football Player
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Rome
New York
Patrick James Riley
Riles
Riley
Patrick James Pat Riley
MacGyver
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Basketball
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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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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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The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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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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It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.
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There are only two options regarding commitment you’re either in or you’re out.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.
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Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
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He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!
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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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When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
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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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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
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In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
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