I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
PAT SUMMITTI think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
PAT SUMMITTSilence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
PAT SUMMITTTeamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
PAT SUMMITTLoyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
PAT SUMMITTMy parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
PAT SUMMITTSetting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
PAT SUMMITTIf you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
PAT SUMMITTMost people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
PAT SUMMITTSuccess lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
PAT SUMMITTYou can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
PAT SUMMITTIt’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
PAT SUMMITTI hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
PAT SUMMITTClass is more important than a game.
PAT SUMMITTRebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
PAT SUMMITTYou can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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