535 Quotes by Pat Riley

There are so many similarities other than size.

We kept trying to call his number. We had him handle the ball a lot and he was either getting to the line or getting some hoops.

I think I read a headline today, 'Great players versus a great team', and I hope we do have great players on the way to becoming a great team. I think a win like this today begins to develop a sense of confidence.

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

It was an absolute eye-opener. I've seen a lot of great quarters. I don't think I've ever seen one exactly like that where a team hits nine 3s (actually eight). We didn't play well, we didn't play with great desire and we got our heads handed to us for the second game in a row.

We were trying to survive. The game got to that point. We had a 20-point lead, they cut it to five. We made a couple of plays and we got out of here.

We kept coming back, coming back. And every time we came out of a huddle, they sort of regained their composure again.

It's a day that we moved toward putting together a core that's going to be together for a while,

It came down to one or two plays and we didn't make them.