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| Pat Riley
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. 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. Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable. Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. Discipline is not a nasty word. Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. 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. Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. 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. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator! You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game. |
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