Pat Riley
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And as long as we were winning, the executive things would take care of themselves.
Now, while I was doing that too on the side, I was getting tremendous support from the people that I delegated that stuff to at the time.
Because I couldn't do both.
I was not an executive, I was a coach.
And I've learned how to become an executive better.
And I've kept people together here.
We have kept people together here for a long time.
There's a great commercial running right now.
And it has sort of a religious connotation to it that in talking about teams can win, but families win championships.
And I believe that.
You have to figure out a way where you can get everybody to buy in, not to just what you're doing on the court, but to really be part of something themselves, where they have a good time, they win, we party, we have fun, we sing.
We do videos, we do practical jokes, but that never gets away from when we hit the court, the sweat and the bodies are colliding, and that's the way it is.
So for 30 years, I've had so many people that have helped me along the way,
and supported me because my mind was exactly where you said.
It would be the Heat became first.
I loved that first team.
Tim Hardaway, Dan Marley, Keith Askins, Jamal Mashburn, Alonzo Mourning, P.J.
Brown.
I love that team.
I love that team.