535 Quotes by Pat Riley

The worst thing that can happen is that if you let your mind go for seven days. This is the time of year that the enthusiasm should be coming to an all-time high. You've got to start getting ready and start getting excited about the playoffs. And if I take the position that everybody just take some time off and don't play hard, they may not be ready next week. It's a fine line.

He has a little bit of a slow release on his jumper. He's got to get there quicker, be set a little quicker. ... People are closing on him pretty hard and making him put it on the floor.

You've got to have some wins like that.

I love to see when teams let him catch it and then double-team him. I know we're going to get all kinds of good shots.

We do not have any answer for that team. And right now, we don't have a defensive game to realize what it is exactly you need to do to stop that.

You've got to have all your weapons against that team.

They are a perimeter team that shoots the ball well, that if you're not covering and taking away their air space then someone's going to get you somewhere.

He'd go a week and he'd be OK, and then he'd get hurt again. So I just hope he's healthy now and I can use him in that role.

You've got to give him credit. He just stepped up. You could see he wasn't really mobile.