You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
PAT SUMMITTAdmit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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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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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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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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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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