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 SUMMITTIf you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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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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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.
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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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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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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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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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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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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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