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 SUMMITTA 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 SUMMITTAttitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
PAT SUMMITTOffense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
PAT SUMMITTIndividual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
PAT SUMMITTDiscipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
PAT SUMMITTGod 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.
PAT SUMMITTMy parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
PAT SUMMITTPut the Team Before Yourself.
PAT SUMMITTGroup discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
PAT SUMMITTAnyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
PAT SUMMITTWhen 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,’
PAT SUMMITTYou can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
PAT SUMMITTI want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
PAT SUMMITTThe willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
PAT SUMMITTI think I can help others just by my example.
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