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.
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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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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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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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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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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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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.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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See yourself as self employed.
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