Book · 1994 · Sports & Recreation
The Winner Within
A Life Plan for Team Players
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Basketball coach, Pat Riley, now a GM, I guess, he has a book, The Winner Within. It's another coaching book. There's a chapter called The Disease of Me.
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One of the books um that i read in high school that was really inspirational for me was pat's book the winner within.
Keith Rabois This Week in Startups · Dec 2020 Well, uh on the back of the last book, McMillan approached me during the lockdown to do a book on leadership, and I'd always thought um there was a couple of books when I was growing up as a coach, uh learning my trade, that I really appreciated the help I got from one was from Pat Riley, the LA.
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The Winner Within by Pat Riley is a classic leadership and coaching book written by the legendary basketball figure. Eddie Jones mentioned the book on Modern Wisdom while reflecting on his own career, noting that Riley's work was one of the key resources he appreciated and relied upon while learning his trade as a young coach. On Invest Like the Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy brought up the coaching book to introduce a discussion on selflessness, specifically highlighting a chapter titled The Disease of Me to explain how team-first dynamics can be undermined by individual ego. Additionally, Keith Rabois shared on This Week in Startups that reading Pat Riley's book during his high school years served as a deeply inspirational experience for him. Across these different podcast discussions, speakers turned to Riley's insights to illustrate core principles of elite team building, organizational psychology, and the persistent challenge of managing personal ambition within a collective environment.
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Eddie Jones Well, uh on the back of the last book, McMillan approached me during the lockdown to do a book on leadershi… 1
“Well, uh on the back of the last book, McMillan approached me during the lockdown to do a book on leadership, and I'd always thought um there was a couple of books when I was growing up as a coach, uh learning my trade, that I really appreciated the help I got from one was from Pat Riley, the LA”
Keith Rabois one of the books um that i read in high school that was really inspirational for me was pat's book the winn… 1
“one of the books um that i read in high school that was really inspirational for me was pat's book the winner within”
Patrick O'Shaughnessy Basketball coach, Pat Riley, now a GM, I guess, he has a book, The Winner Within. It's another coaching boo… 1
“Basketball coach, Pat Riley, now a GM, I guess, he has a book, The Winner Within. It's another coaching book. There's a chapter called The Disease of Me.”