Combine practice with belief.
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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Class is more important than a game.
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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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Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
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Put the Team Before Yourself.
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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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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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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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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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Sit up straight, listen and participate.
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I don’t give out compliments easily.
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If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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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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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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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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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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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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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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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 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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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