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.
PAT SUMMITTCombine practice with belief.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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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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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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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.
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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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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’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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