I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
PAT SUMMITTTo 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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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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’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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It is what it is. But, it will be what you make 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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Combine practice with belief.
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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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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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