Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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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Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
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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 my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
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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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The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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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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There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
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I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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