Pat Riley Quotes on Games (11 Quotes)

It's in our hands. I'm not looking at numbers. I'm not looking at who they're playing. It's in our hands. And so we have to win games. They might win out. So we have to just stay one step ahead of the posse.

I hope that tonight is kind of the start of an attitude that we'll take here at home, especially at home, where we're not going to have close games or we're going to make sure that we're going to win a lot of games here at home. Because the road is treacherous.

That was obviously another one of those games. They (Boston Celtics) played extremely well. They were focused and they had a tremendous approach to the game. They executed in the first quarter flawlessly. They did not feel our defense and they did not feel our presence. We were waiting for them to miss and they just didn't.

Shaq is in shape. He's back in 26 games. We've been together 46 games. Enough talk about learning each other and coming together. It's time to put up and play, and play against the best teams in the league, especially at home.

I would say at the end of the games if you went back and charted Jason Williams making shots in the last four minutes he's one of the best at making open shots. So you've got to have him on the court. While everybody says you've got take him off the court because it's a defensive thing, what do I do at the other end

If you recall, the last time we shut him down, he had a good run of games. I think that's what we need to do in light of not having him at all.

You can characterize it however you want to, they are finding ways to win. They make plays at the end of games and that's what it is all about.

It's a good bounce-back game. We needed to get out of our system what happened the last couple of games.

He's had some pretty ... good games. He's playing extremely well, we're winning and he's stepping up.

We were very fortunate to win. I think we understand that. But you have to win some games like this.

In some games, he's going to have to do it. When he plays against Detroit, possibly he's going to have to play (guard) Rip (Hamilton) in those big games.