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.
PAT SUMMITTI don’t give out compliments easily.
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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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Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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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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Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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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 are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Make Winning an Attitude.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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