You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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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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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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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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