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Top 60 Pat Riley Quotes (2025 Update)
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Pat Riley Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

Pat Riley Quote: “When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”

52. “When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”

Pat Riley Quote: “There is no such thing as life in-between.”

53. “There is no such thing as life in-between.”

Pat Riley Quote: “Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That’s why I believe in practicing a team to train when it’s exhausted.”

54. “Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That’s why I believe in practicing a team to train when it’s exhausted.”

Pat Riley Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

Pat Riley Quote: “Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.”

56. “Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.”

Pat Riley Quote: “He’s the greatest clutch player I’ve ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!”

57. “He’s the greatest clutch player I’ve ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!”

Pat Riley Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

Pat Riley Quote: “It’s what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.”

59. “It’s what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.”

Pat Riley Quote: “Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”

60. “Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”

Pat Riley Quote: “In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You’ve got to stop other teams to win.”

61. “In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You’ve got to stop other teams to win.”

Pat Riley Quote: “When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”

62. “When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”

Pat Riley Quote: “We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”

63. “We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”

Pat Riley Quote: “A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player’s personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”

64. “A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player’s personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”

Pat Riley Quote: “Discipline is not a nasty word.”

65. “Discipline is not a nasty word.”

Pat Riley Quote: “People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.”

66. “People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.”

Pat Riley Quote: “I’d like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.”

67. “I’d like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.”

Pat Riley Quote: “You can never have enough talent.”

68. “You can never have enough talent.”

Pat Riley Quote: “All I did from day-to-day is coach. That’s what my job was, that’s what my passion was, and the fact that now it’s something I’m being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.”

69. “All I did from day-to-day is coach. That’s what my job was, that’s what my passion was, and the fact that now it’s something I’m being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.”

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