Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
PAT SUMMITTAdmit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
PAT SUMMITTYou spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
PAT SUMMITTAttitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
PAT SUMMITTIn 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.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
PAT SUMMITTGod 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.
PAT SUMMITTNine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
PAT SUMMITTThere is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
PAT SUMMITTThe 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.
PAT SUMMITTSuccess is a project that’s always under construction.
PAT SUMMITTI haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.
PAT SUMMITTI’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
PAT SUMMITTI’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
PAT SUMMITTI 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.
PAT SUMMITTIf I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
PAT SUMMITTSee yourself as self employed.
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