When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Quote by Pat Riley

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Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs,...

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs,...

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other...

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other...

You can never have enough talent.

You can never have enough talent.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you...

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you...

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature,...

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature,...

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you...

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you...

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent...

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent...

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other...

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other...

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!

Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!

The only risk of failure is promotion.

The only risk of failure is promotion.