Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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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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I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
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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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I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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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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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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