Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
PAT SUMMITTWe do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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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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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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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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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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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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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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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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See yourself as self employed.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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