Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
PAT SUMMITTResponsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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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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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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My 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.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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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 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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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