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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Pat Riley

Attitude

Effort

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

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Giving

Loss

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

Pat Riley

Excellence

Result

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!

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

Pat Riley

People

Want

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Pat Riley

Discipline

Word

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

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Pat Riley

Performance

Efficiency

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.

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

Pat Riley

Choices

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

Pat Riley

Success

Being

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

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.