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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
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
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In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
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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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