Pat Riley
Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Rileyis an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams, four with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 March 1945
CityRome, NY
CountryUnited States of America
They're a great team. They can score. They can stop. That's why they're who they are.
There's a real heaviness to our team and I feel it. I'm trying to lighten it up. Because there are so many distractions and so many things going on, it's heavy and it wears on guys. We don't want this. We want to win. We are winning, but we're not winning at the rate people want us to win.
It will always be sort of game-to-game, I think, with him.
They (Boston Celtics) played extremely well in the first half. They were focused and they had a tremendous approach to the game.
They come at you real fast. You have to play them two or three times (on actions). You can't play them once and think (the possession) is over with.
The voters will put in the best players, and the coaches will take care of the rest.
They did not feel our defense. We were waiting for them to miss and they just didn't.
They came out, really wanted to make a statement, jumped on the team defensively. We had a lot of energy to start the game.
They are one of, if not the best, effort teams in the league. We were very fortunate to win the game. We had to play that kind of game, defense-oriented and tough.
They were a step ahead of us because of their effort and their energy and their absolute desperation to make the playoffs. When you get a team with that frame of mind, they are going to be a step ahead of you.
Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.