I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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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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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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I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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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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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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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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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
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I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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