Quotes by Former Players

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

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in between.

Pat Riley

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

Pat Riley

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth.

Doc Rivers

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

Pat Riley

As Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines succinctly put it, 'Strategy, overdone; doing stuff, underdone'.

Carlo Ancelotti

From the beginning, when something was wrong I've been saying: 'Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!' So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke.

Claudio Ranieri