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.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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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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Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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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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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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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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Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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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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See yourself as self employed.
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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 think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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