Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
PAT SUMMITT
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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Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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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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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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My 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.
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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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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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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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It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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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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