A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
PAT SUMMITTMy parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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 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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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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