I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
PAT SUMMITTIn order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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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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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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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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Success 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.
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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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