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 SUMMITTI think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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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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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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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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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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.
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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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