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 SUMMITTYou can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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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.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Combine practice with belief.
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I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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 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.
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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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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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