I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
PAT SUMMITTIt’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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Class is more important than a game.
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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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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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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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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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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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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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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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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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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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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 I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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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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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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Success is a project that’s always under construction.
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