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.
PAT SUMMITTShe 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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See yourself as self employed.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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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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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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