Pat Riley Coaching Quotations

But it's up to Shaquille, too. I mean, it's up to him. And this is where the old coach came out of Stu. He started using some coaching terminology. He said, 'Well, you've got to get him to make a V-cut every now and then. If he makes a V-cut, then they impede his progress, they'll call it.

With me, you're either in or out. I picked them. I'm with them. I'm going to try to keep coaching them. I'm not going let this shake me. I've been around this game too damn long.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

No rebounds - no rings.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!