Pat Riley quote: "We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team."

Whatever it takes to win.
PAT RILEY

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY

You can never have enough talent.
PAT RILEY

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ...
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
PAT RILEY

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

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
PAT RILEY

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
PAT RILEY

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

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
PAT RILEY

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare...
PAT RILEY

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
PAT RILEY

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
PAT RILEY

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his at...
PAT RILEY

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
PAT RILEY

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

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate ex...
PAT RILEY

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The...
PAT RILEY

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effor...
PAT RILEY

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
PAT RILEY

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

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

Discipline is not a nasty word.
PAT RILEY

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

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in so...
PAT RILEY

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

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
PAT RILEY

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This ...
PAT RILEY

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

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will ...
PAT RILEY

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit...
PAT RILEY

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

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion...
PAT RILEY

They were a step ahead of us because of their effort and their energy and their absolute desperation...
PAT RILEY

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thi...
PAT RILEY

I thought we played the best quarter of the series, quite frankly. We kept it very simple and the ba...
PAT RILEY

We were hanging on, and we have to give him credit. He just stepped up. He wasn't that mobile, but h...
PAT RILEY

Strange things happen when you think things are at their worst. I thought Gary (Payton) did a great ...
PAT RILEY

We weathered the storm. That's it.
PAT RILEY

It's almost like a blessing in disguise to get on the road because it's a better challenge and we ca...
PAT RILEY

We got a break tonight. Bobby Simmons is a great player - Mo Williams - those two guys would have cr...
PAT RILEY

Antoine is capable of having an outrageous night. I was going to sub for him but I just wanted to ge...
PAT RILEY

We made a run at them, but we were one or two possessions short.
PAT RILEY

I hope that tonight is kind of the start of an attitude that we'll take here at home, especially at ...
PAT RILEY

We didn't do as well as we've done this year, but it was just really great to be there, ... There's ...
PAT RILEY

[Riley said he hopes to sign Shaquille O'Neal for up to five years.] From my experience with big men...
PAT RILEY

I know he had fun and he was a major part of this. But in order to get something good back, you have...
PAT RILEY

What people don't understand is, last year we had two great players, but you need more talent. You c...
PAT RILEY

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

When you're getting your ass kicked, you get on to game four. That's what it's about.
PAT RILEY

You have to watch out from mentally flirting with something you did for 22 years [and] being nostalg...
PAT RILEY

He kept telling me he's ready. But I'm a stubborn old coach.
PAT RILEY

I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's gi...
PAT RILEY

You can characterize it however you want to, they are finding ways to win. They make plays at the en...
PAT RILEY

Teams are going to start getting nastier, more competitive and they want it, and they're going to ge...
PAT RILEY

I put no credence into how we finished at all.
PAT RILEY

He has a little irritation on his knee. It came out of nowhere.
PAT RILEY

He has a little irritation on his knee. I don't think its any more than that. He sort of experienced...
PAT RILEY

He has a little irritation on his knee. I don't think it is anything more than that.
PAT RILEY

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, h...
PAT RILEY

When you're getting your ass kicked, you take it, and you go on to game four. They were very good an...
PAT RILEY

This is about an experienced, savvy, talented team which I believe we have taking advantage of the o...
PAT RILEY

The demise of Shaquille O'Neal has been greatly exaggerated. I can guarantee you that - and I coach ...
PAT RILEY

We are all so quick to judge around here, but the demise of Shaquille O'Neal has been greatly exagge...
PAT RILEY

We are going to be without Jason until the end of the season. We've decided to shut him down.
PAT RILEY

Brent hit the big one to sort of put the nail in the coffin.
PAT RILEY

The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger. Sometimes, it's absolutely beyond descri...
PAT RILEY

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).
PAT RILEY

I paid my bill and I went up to the room and got a telephone call from the waitress. They're all pre...
PAT RILEY

Late in the fourth quarter, everyone hit a critical shot. Tony Parker hit one, Bowen hit a couple an...
PAT RILEY

We wanted Damon. We felt this was the best place for him. What they wanted, we were unwilling to do....
PAT RILEY

We've got to stop the penetration, that's key. We've got to keep our bodies in front of the ball bet...
PAT RILEY

Strange things happen when you think they're at their really worst. We needed the win, that's all th...
PAT RILEY

We're a long ways away, and they'll be the first ones to admit it. There's a lot of good here that m...
PAT RILEY

I think our guys remember that. I think they do remember getting embarrassed and humiliated in that ...
PAT RILEY

I give all the credit to Brian Hill for keeping that team together.
PAT RILEY

You can't be happy with the whole disposition of our team in the second half, playing with a 20-poin...
PAT RILEY

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

What we've noticed a little bit about Chauncey and what Flip has done with this team, he has injecte...
PAT RILEY

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton's stature, ... He is a pr...
PAT RILEY

When is it going to start? That's the question I posed to them tonight. When are we going to start b...
PAT RILEY

He's being measured, I think, too harshly. But I believe in him. He's a streak scorer with this team...
PAT RILEY

I'm disappointed in it. He deserved it. Ben Wallace and the other guys who were picked, they deserve...
PAT RILEY

This team is being judged very harshly.
PAT RILEY

They played an absolutely great game. They did what they had to do defensively. It didn't help us th...
PAT RILEY

There's gotta be some dignity in the game.
PAT RILEY

I guess we were just out of it.
PAT RILEY

They come at you real fast. You have to play them two or three times (on actions). You can't play th...
PAT RILEY

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
PAT RILEY

We feel very fortunate that we were able to acquire the services of a multifaceted player in Derek A...
PAT RILEY

I coached an absolutely awful game; terrible game plan, pick-and-roll schemes; everything.
PAT RILEY

He was definitely set back with the back for three months, and I don't think he ever really regained...
PAT RILEY

I spent four days in New York with my family, with my mother, and during the process of being there ...
PAT RILEY

They say one's weakness can be another strength but my strengths can lead to anothers demolition
PAT

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
TALULAH RILEY

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence,...
TALULAH RILEY

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
TALULAH RILEY

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.
TALULAH RILEY

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lo...
TALULAH RILEY

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an act...
TALULAH RILEY

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in ...
TALULAH RILEY

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a ...
TALULAH RILEY

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, &#...
TALULAH RILEY

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ...
TALULAH RILEY

When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten ...
TALULAH RILEY

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
TALULAH RILEY

Men are visual creatures.
TALULAH RILEY

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
TALULAH RILEY

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a de...
TALULAH RILEY

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel,...
TALULAH RILEY

There's a real power in heels and a good dress.
TALULAH RILEY

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie...
TALULAH RILEY

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
TALULAH RILEY

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole ...
TALULAH RILEY

My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew somethi...
TALULAH RILEY

I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
TALULAH RILEY

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to re...
TALULAH RILEY

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then ...
TALULAH RILEY

I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot ...
TALULAH RILEY

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite ha...
SAM RILEY

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the...
SAM RILEY

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
SAM RILEY

My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
SAM RILEY

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at...
SAM RILEY

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
SAM RILEY

'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of...
SAM RILEY

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
SAM RILEY

I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
SAM RILEY

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
SAM RILEY

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays t...
SAM RILEY

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire...
SAM RILEY

I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, ...
SAM RILEY

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
SAM RILEY

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
SAM RILEY

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
TALULAH RILEY

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
BRIDGET RILEY

I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my hous...
RILEY SMITH

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend wh...
AMBER RILEY

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my caree...
RILEY SMITH

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up...
BOB RILEY

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.
BOB RILEY

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment ...
BOB RILEY

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
BOB RILEY

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government...
BOB RILEY

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared betw...
BOB RILEY

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less lik...
BOB RILEY

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New ...
BOB RILEY

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies d...
BOB RILEY

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ...
BOB RILEY

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money...
BOB RILEY

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it...
BOB RILEY

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes...
BOB RILEY

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for gov...
BOB RILEY

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited re...
BOB RILEY

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
BOB RILEY

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedne...
BOB RILEY

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our L...
BOB RILEY

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take car...
BOB RILEY

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the...
BOB RILEY

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
BOB RILEY

There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and...
BOB RILEY

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe...
BOB RILEY

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is...
BOB RILEY

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
BOB RILEY

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.
RILEY KEOUGH

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagin...
RILEY KEOUGH

It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once.
RILEY KEOUGH

There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are....
RILEY KEOUGH

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me...
RILEY KEOUGH

I think I should have been an aesthetician, honestly.
RILEY KEOUGH

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.
RILEY KEOUGH

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all t...
RILEY KEOUGH

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.
RILEY KEOUGH

I think it's ridiculous when a character wakes up in the morning with lipstick and foundation an...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't remember the last time I drove. I'd rather be a passenger unless I'm somewhere b...
RILEY KEOUGH

People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed ...
RILEY KEOUGH

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of ...
RILEY KEOUGH

Honestly, my idea of a fun night out is something like being in the middle of America in a pickup tr...
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow...
RILEY KEOUGH

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting pe...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.
RILEY KEOUGH

Eventually, I want to move to Hawaii and chill forever.
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner,...
RILEY KEOUGH

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted t...
RILEY KEOUGH

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had...
BRIDGET RILEY

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
BRIDGET RILEY

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my a...
TOM RILEY

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

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Pat Riley

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

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