You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
PAT SUMMITTThe ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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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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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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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’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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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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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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