With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
PAT SUMMITTWinners are not born, they are self-made.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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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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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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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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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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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
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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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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 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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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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