J.S. Riley Quotes

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

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.

Relentless Forward Motion!

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

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.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

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.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

You can only receive what you're willing to give.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important