You 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. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
More Pat Summitt Quotes
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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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Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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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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Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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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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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
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Class is more important than a game.
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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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Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
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Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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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.
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