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.
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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!
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Great effort springs naturally from 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.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
You can never have enough talent.
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.
Pat averaged 11.0 points per game in the 1974-75 season with the LA Lakers.
Pat averaged 7.3 points per game in the 1972-73 season with the LA Lakers.
Pat averaged 4.9 points per game in the 1970-71 season with the LA Lakers.
Pat averaged 8.8 points per game in the 1968-69 season with the San Diego Rockets.
Pat partially led the Miami Heat to a 41-20 (52-30 overall) regular season record in 2005. He led them to a 16-7 post season record as well to help them win the NBA Championship.
Pat led the Miami Heat to a 36-46 regular season record in 2001. He did not lead his team to the playoffs that year.
Pat led the Miami Heat to a 50-32 regular season record in 2000. He led them to a 0-3 post season record as well.
Pat partially led the Miami Heat to a 33-17 regular season record in 1998. He led them to a 2-3 post season record as well.
Pat led the Miami Heat to a 61-21 regular season record in 1996. He led them to a 8-9 post season record as well.
Pat led the New York Knicks to a 55-27 regular season record in 1994. He led them to a 6-5 post season record as well.
Pat led the New York Knicks to a 60-22 regular season record in 1992. He led them to a 9-6 post season record as well.
Pat led the LA Lakers to a 63-19 regular season record in 1989. He led them to a 4-5 post season record as well.
Pat led the LA Lakers to a 62-20 regular season record in 1987. He led them to a 15-9 post season record as well to help them win the NBA Championship.
Pat led the LA Lakers to a 62-20 regular season record in 1985. He led them to a 8-6 post season record as well.
Pat led the LA Lakers to a 54-28 regular season record in 1983. He led them to a 14-7 post season record as well.
Pat led the LA Lakers to a 50-21 regular season record in 1981. He led them to a 12-2 post season record as well.
Pat's teams captured four consecutive Atlantic Division championships from 1996-2000.
Pat became the only head coach in NBA history to record at least 330 victories with two different franchises in the 2002-03 season.
When Pat opened the 2000-01 season with an Opening Night victory over intrastate rival Orlando on November 1, he became the fastest coach or manager to reach 1,000 wins in the history of the four professional sports in North America.
Pat has guided his teams to at least 50 wins in a season an NBA-record 17 times, six more than the closest coach in league history.
Pat's 19 total postseason coaching berths are tied with Auerbach for the most playoff appearances in a head coaching career in the NBA.
Pat has also captured NBA Coach of the Month honors a league-record nine times.
Pat has captured 16 divisional championships, eight conference championships and four NBA championships as a head coach.
Pat's .684 winning percentage in regular season play ranks third all-time in the NBA and his .608 postseason winning percentage ranks seventh all-time in the league annuals.
Pat's 155 postseason victories are one shy of Phil Jackson for the most in NBA history and his 255 postseason games coached rank first all-time in the league.
Pat has compiled a 1,085-502 (.684) all-time record while guiding the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and the Miami Heat.
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