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.
PAT SUMMITTLosing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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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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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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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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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 want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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