When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
More Quotes by Pat Riley
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.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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.