Combine practice with belief.
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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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My 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.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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See yourself as self employed.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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