Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 20. März 1945 |
Geburtsort | Rome, New York, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American professional basketball executive, former coach, and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, and he also served as the team's head coach from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2008. Regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has won five NBA championships as a head coach, four with the Los Angeles Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s and one with the Heat in 2006. Riley is a nine-time NBA champion across his tenures as a player (1972), assistant coach (1980), head coach (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2006), and executive (2012, 2013). |
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
