Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
"As player:"
* List of NBA champions/NBA champion ()
* First-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/All-American – United States Basketball Writers Association/USBWA (1966)
* Third-team All-American – Associated Press/AP, United Press International/UPI (1966)
* Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year/SEC Player of the Year (AP) (1966)
* No. 42 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball#Retired jerseys/retired by Kentucky
"As assistant coach:"
* List of NBA champions/NBA champion ()
"As head coach:"
* 5× List of NBA champions/NBA champion (1982, 1985, 1987–1988, 2006)
* 3× NBA Coach of the Year Award/NBA Coach of the Year (, , )
* 9× List of NBA All-Star Game head coaches/NBA All-Star Game head coach (1982 NBA All-Star Game/1982–1983 NBA All-Star Game/1983, 1985 NBA All-Star Game/1985–1990 NBA All-Star Game/1990, 1993 NBA All-Star Game/1993)
* 50 Greatest Players in NBA History#Top 10 Coaches in NBA History/Top 10 Coaches in NBA History
"As executive:"
* 2× List of NBA champions/NBA champion (–)
* NBA Executive of the Year Award/NBA Executive of the Year ()
/ stat1label = Point (basketball)/Points
/ stat1value = 3,906 (7.4 ppg)
/ stat2label = Rebound (basketball)/Rebounds
/ stat2value = 855 (1.6 rpg)
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous coaches! More Pat Riley on Wikipedia.Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between.
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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