Make Winning an Attitude.
PAT SUMMITTYou spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Setting 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.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Teamwork 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.
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She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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