Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
PAT SUMMITTTeamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Class is more important than a game.
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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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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